“I came like a king, left like a legend.”
Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981) Swedish association football player
Before playing his last game in Parc des Princes, Paris. https://twitter.com/Ibra_official/status/731025180777172992 <br class="br">Attributed
“I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.”
— Augustus
After having visited the mausoleum of Alexander the Great in Alexandria, Augustus was asked if he also wanted to visit the mausoleum of the Ptolemies; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 16. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
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