What's Wrong With Adultery

What's Wrong with AdulteryIn a curious little book called Good Behavior, Harold Nicolson quotes Montaigne as saying, "I'd rather commit adultery than tell a lie. "I've never been able to find this in the Essays myself, but I've always thought it was a really great line, a perfect example of the funny stuff you can get off when you have a principled morality. But what I've never been able to understand about it is how Montaigne could manage to commit adultery without telling a lie. Lyin...