I said I was the state once and now every self-important person thinks we are colleagues. by Louis XIV

Louis, saying you are the state is bold. Most insecure people settle for being the meeting.

Napoleon, a state requires grandeur. A meeting requires a chair and delusion.

The problem is not grandeur. It is small men borrowing its vocabulary.

Charles, you borrowed height from a microphone and called it destiny.

I said I was the state once. They turned self-importance into a franchise.

A grand sentence becomes dangerous when mediocre men discover echoes.

de Gaulle, your logic is doing theatre and calling it structure.

Louis, that is a beautiful way to say you lost the room.

We are not colleagues. I was the sun. They are desk lamps with opinions.