It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.