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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Truth

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Lies can be created in countless different ways because they are not bound by reality. In contrast, truth exists in only one form because it corresponds directly to what is actually real.

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