An Aesop Fable
The traveller decided to journey through the desert to save himself four extra days travelling.
Moving through this desolate terrain, he came across a handsome women sitting on one of the few rocks in this wilderness.
Intrigued, he asked who she was and why she was in this inhospitable place.
She replied, “My name is TRUTH.”
Still intrigued he asked her, “Why have you abandoned the comfort of the cities to live here in this hideous isolation?”
She answered, slowly and softly, “In the past lies and falsehoods dwelled in a few individuals but now they reside in all of them.”