Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

BOOK FIFTEEN: 1812 - 13
5. CHAPTER V (continued)

That simple, modest, and therefore truly great, figure could not be cast in the false mold of a European hero- the supposed ruler of men- that history has invented.

To a lackey no man can be great, for a lackey has his own conception of greatness.

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