You've miseheard the proverb. It's actually "Halfthe truth is often a great lie."
What Goebbels said was that if you repeat a lie often enough people believe it, not that 'it becomes the truth'.
if you're not telling the whole truth, you are lying.
There is none. To deny the truth is to lie and live it! Living a lie is denial and the state denial and living a lie is synonymous with telling a lie. Perhaps the only real difference is in the motive. To deny the truth can be motivated by a desire to avoid the harshness of the truth but still requires deception. While to lie maybe the consequence of denial and or intentional deception. To deny something often requires the omission of the truth while to lie is to to deny or contradict the truth. But a lie by omission is still a lie!
In French it is the verb "to lie" as in not tell the truth.
He was known to often fabricate a lie or stretch the truth.
This question does not have enough information for a good answer. If you mean why people lie, it is usually to cover up the truth.
You DON'T need to lie often. But you can LIE AND tell the TRUTH at the same time. MY method is to tell my self in OTHER circumstances that it is the truth and it works. Tell the person your "LIE" and it might even work.
"mensonge" means "lie", the opposite of truth.
a very near the truth lie
Prejury means to tell a lie when under oath to tell the truth
Both or neither it cannot work
It literally means what it says...Repeating a lie does not make it turn into a truth. A lie is still a lie.