No because even though you might think it's the smallest lie it can lead to something much worse like death. In the play “Hippolytus” Phaedra had lied that she had been raped by her son because she didn't want to ruin her reputation. "I know only one way, one cure for these ills of mine, and that is instant death." (Phaedra, 12, line 5) She confessed to her son that she was in love with him, she felt too embarrassed and thought she would tell everyone, so she killed herself. Lies can make innocent people seem evil. “Why do you say this, if, as you pretend, your lips are free from blame?” (Hippolytus, 12, line 12) Hippolytus did nothing wrong and did not want to claim his innocence because he felt he did not need to justify himself. If his friends and family had been loyal to him, they would have believed him. But in the end they didn't. “Come, my companions in this land, young men like me, greet me kindly and escort me forward, for never will you see a purer soul, despite all my father's doubts.” (Hippolytus, 20, line 14) Hippolytus stands his ground and knows he has done nothing wrong, while his father believes he has harmed his wife, and later kills him for it. The truth is bound to leak out somehow, no matter how hard you try to hide your tracks. "She meanwhile, fearing discovery, wrote a lying letter, destroying your son by deception, but persuading you nevertheless." (Hippolytus, 23, Line 7) Artemis reveals the truth to Theseus, the