If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. – Aristotle

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. – Richard J. Needham