Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Forth Series

Fragment ID: 22019

As for Napoleon, Caesar and Shakespeare, not one of them was a virtuous man, but they were great men, and that was your contention that only virtuous men are great men and those who have vices are not great, which is an absurd contention. All of them went after women – two were ambitious. Napoleon was most arrogant and violent.