Conquering half the world only taught me one thing: success makes everyone suddenly your strategist. by Alexander the Great

Alexander, success always creates experts who were silent before the victory.

Caesar, the quiet ones become historians. The loud ones become advisors.

Advisors are just spectators with better chairs.

Napoleon, you would know. Half your problems had seating charts.

I needed generals, not men discovering caution after the hard part.

That is the thread: three reputations, one mirror, no clean argument.