1 The irregulars destroyed the great army piecemeal.
2 And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.
3 Everyone spoke loudly of the field marshal's great weakness and failing health.
4 To a lackey no man can be great, for a lackey has his own conception of greatness.
5 To a lackey no man can be great, for a lackey has his own conception of greatness.
6 In the past he had never been able to find that great inscrutable infinite something.
7 For the "great" man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a "great" man can be blamed.
8 Konovnitsyn had understood at once that the news brought was of great importance and that no time must be lost.
9 And lastly, the final departure of the great Emperor from his heroic army is presented to us by the historians as something great and characteristic of genius.
10 Tikhon, who at first did rough work, laying campfires, fetching water, flaying dead horses, and so on, soon showed a great liking and aptitude for partisan warfare.
11 And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness.
12 Afterwards when one of the generals addressed Kutuzov asking whether he wished his caleche to be sent for, Kutuzov in answering unexpectedly gave a sob, being evidently greatly moved.
13 He had equipped himself with a mental telescope and looked into remote space, where petty worldliness hiding itself in misty distance had seemed to him great and infinite merely because it was not clearly seen.
14 Previously he had talked a great deal, grew excited when he talked, and seldom listened; now he was seldom carried away in conversation and knew how to listen so that people readily told him their most intimate secrets.
15 The first time he had recourse to his new judge was when a French prisoner, a colonel, came to him and, after talking a great deal about his exploits, concluded by making what amounted to a demand that Pierre should give him four thousand francs to send to his wife and children.