Lies are a survival skill. For my friends, there is always truth.
Lies will build you a brain for deception and bar you from a full ability to love. Chose the truth and you build a brain for honest connections and thus give yourself a real chance of happiness.
In a love-nexus, the purpose of a lie is protecting others, of necessary defence, or of saving feelings from being hurt. In a money-nexus lies have other purposes for society becomes dog-eat-dog and the reasons for deception proliferate.
If to lie is your default position your brain is being mis-wired daily. Then, when you seek love, and recall that truth is foundational to love, you will feel as if you are on the other side of a sheet of glass even though they try to reach you. The only way through, the only way back to the safety of love, is honesty, the kind that is raw and vulnerable.
To keep you safe I would tell infinite lies and never flinch. I believe in honesty, yet love is my supreme first principle. I love you. You are my heart and soul.