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Essays, Book 1, ch. 9 "On Liars [Des Menteurs]" (1572) (1.9) (1595) [tr. Ives (1925)] - Montaigne, Michel de | WIST Quotations
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we should be better off, for we should take for certain the contrary of what the liar said. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and a limitless field. [Si comme la verité, le mensonge n’avoit qu’un visage, nous…