"... If falsehood had, like truth, but one face only, we should be upon better terms; for we should then take for certain the contrary to what the liar says: bu

"... If falsehood had, like truth, but one face only, we should be upon better terms; for we should then take for certain the contrary to what the liar says: but the reverse of truth has a hundred thousand forms, and a field indefinite, without bound or limit. The Pythagoreans make good to be certain and finite, and evil, infinite and uncertain. There are a thousand ways to miss the white, there is only one to hit it. ..." -- Montaigne https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/montaigne/michel/essays/book1.9.html https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/montaigne/michel/essays/boo...