/lit/ - Literature

Reading about "great" men is interesting, particularly conquerors like Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon, in part because they all aspired to emulate other "great" men who have come before them. It's copycats all the way down. In a way, it's pathetic. Rather than define themselves, these people look to others to get an idea of who they want to be, and then they pursue that unoriginal identity at the expense of thousands, if not millions of lives lost in war. Sure, history may remember them. But history does not remember them for who they are, only what they did. They should've unironically just been themselves.

>>20896400
>Disappear from what?
Disappear from France, retard. Can't you read?