Notable Quote #10

“There is no act, no crime, no petty deceit which he would not commit, and which would not be at once represented on the lips of those about him as a great deed.”

 

From Tolstoy’s War And Peace, by way of a column in this morning’s Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-finished-war-and-peace--and-now-im-over-pandemic-self-improvement/2020/05/19/28ca2384-99e9-11ea-a282-386f56d579e6_story.html

 

Note – Tolstoy was referring to Napoleon.