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Quotation from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

“And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.”

Leo Tolstoy (spoken by Narrator)

War and Peace, Book Fourteen, Ch. XVIII, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude

Portrait of Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy answers historians who call Napoleon great, measuring him by the standard of good and evil given by Christ.

Citation: "And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent." — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Book Fourteen, Ch. XVIII, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude. (id tolstoy-war-and-peace-q7)

Portrait: L.N.Tolstoy Prokudin-Gorsky, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, Public domain.

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