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“It is a shame for anyone to be well-known for righteousness. It is a great disgrace to feel distress at the injustice of the turning of the wheels of fate.”

Fate Injustice Righteousness

Book:The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Source: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“My coming brought no profit to the sky, Nor does my going swell its glory; My two ears have never heard anyone that could say, Why I came here and why I will go away.”

Existence Fate Agnosticism

Author:Omar Khayyám

“To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much Just remember two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.”

Wisdom Relationships

Book:Rubaiyat

Source: Rubaiyat

“For the sake of beloved that so I fall into troubles She is enamored of someone, she is also woeful, too. Remedy of my sorrow, in her own suffering When the doctor becomes sick, whom should he go?”

Love Suffering Sorrow Beloved Remedy

Author:Omar Khayyám

“My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.”

Death Peace Garden Roses Tranquil Burial Fatalism Tomb North Wind

Author:Omar Khayyám

“Так как истина вечно уходит из рук - Не пытайся понять непонятное, друг. Чашу в руки бери, оставайся невеждой, Нету смысла, поверь, в изученье наук.”

Learning

Book:رباعيات خيام

Source: رباعيات خيام

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”

Poetry Time Regret Indelibility

Author:Omar Khayyám

“Where is an intimate friend who’ll hear the secret from me straight out– of what human beings have been from the moment they began? They are born of toil and molded from the clay of sorrow. They wander the world for a time, then set off.”

Life Humans Death Birth Sorrow

Book:Edward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Source: Edward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - And Wilderness is Paradise enow.”

Love Life Poetry Wine Satisfaction Bread Paradise Companionship Sufficiency

Book:Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Source: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“A book of verses underneath the bough A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness And wilderness is paradise now.”

Poetry

Book:Edward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Source: Edward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head.”

Blood Rose Mortality Flowers Transience Caesar Hyacinth

Book:Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Source: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.”

Poetry Solitude New Year

Book:Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Source: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever.”

Life Today Desire Time Tomorrow Future Thoughts Wasting Time Present Carpe Diem

Book:Quatrains - Ballades

Source: Quatrains - Ballades

“From the house of unbelief to true religion is a single breath; From the world of doubt to certainty is a single breath; Enjoy this precious single breath, for the harvest of our whole lives is that same one breath.”

Religion Belief Doubt Lifetime Certainty Lives Unbelief

Book:Quatrains - Ballades

Source: Quatrains - Ballades

“Lève-toi, enfant divin: voici l'aube qui paraît; Verse en ma coupe le vin, cristal et rubis balais. Cet instant, grâce précaire en ce recoin de néant, Tu y rêveras longtemps sans le revivre jamais.”

Poésie Quatrain Khayyam

Book:Vivre te soit bonheur

Source: Vivre te soit bonheur

“This world that was our home for a brief spell never brought us anything but pain and grief; its a shame that not one of our problems was ever solved. We depart with a thousand regrets in our hearts.”

World Life Home Pain Death Poetry Grief Problems Regrets

Author:Omar Khayyám

“And do you think that unto such as you, A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew, God gave the Secret, and denied it me?-- Well, well, what matters it! believe that too. Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee; If only you were half so good as he! He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness, Great-hearted mirth and kind adultery. But yours the cold heart, and the murderous tongue, The wintry soul that hates to hear a song, The close-shut fist, the mean and measuring eye, And all the little poisoned ways of wrong.”

Religious Hypocrisy

Book:Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Source: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“დალიე ღვინო, ვინ რა იცის, საიდან მოხვალ, ლაღად იცხოვრე, ვინ რა იცის, საითკენ წახვალ”

Omar Khayyám

Author:Omar Khayyám

“هر یک چندی یکی بر آید که: منم! با نعمت و با سیم و زر آید که: منم! چون کارَک او نظام گیرد روزی، ناگه، اجل از کمین در آید که: منم!”

Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat

Book:رباعيات خيام

Source: رباعيات خيام

“O friend, for the morrow let us not worry This moment we have now, let us not hurry When our time comes, we shall not tarry With seven thousand-year-olds, our burden carry”

Life Inspirational Moments Friendship

Book:Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Source: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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