A wayfaring Man, traveling in the desert, met a Woman standing alone and terribly dejected. He inquired of her: “Who are thou?” “My name us Truth,” she replied. “And for what cause,” he asked, “have you left the city to dwell alone here in the wilderness?” She made answer: “Because in former times, falsehood was with few, but is now with all men.”

From Aesop’s Fables, translated by George Fyler Townsend, Collins Classics, London: Harper Press, 2011, p. 279.