Quotes on truth and falsehood in Lucian's The True History

I lie: and this, I hope, may be an excuse for all the rest.
Lucian[1]
For the first time in the history of literature…we encounter a writer whose ceaseless activity includes the world.
Charles Whibley[1]
The first father and founder of all this foolery was Homer's Ulysses.
Lucian[1]
There is scarce a page of Lucian's writing that wears the faded air of antiquity.
Charles Whibley[1]
I write of matters which I neither saw nor suffered, nor heard by report from others.
Lucian[1]
Space: Lucian's True Story Lucian of Samosata - 160AD