You cannot know history unless you know how leaders move with its currents.
Every leader requires outsiders to perpetuate his leadership. Examine my
career: I was leader and outsider. Do not assume I merely created a Church-
State. That was my function as leader and I copied historical models. Barbaric
arts of my time reveal me as outsider. Favorite poetry: epics. Popular
dramatic ideal: heroism. Dances: wildly abandoned. Stimulants to make people
sense what I took from them. What did I take? The right to choose a role in
history.