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Omar Khayyam was a Persian philosopher, mathematician, and poet, renowned for his contributions to algebra and his philosophical works, particularly the 'Quatrains', which have had a profound influence on Western literature and thought.

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám

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Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Ital...

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Persian Literature: Comprising the Sháh...

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“Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown forever dies.”

Wisdom Persian Poetry Rubiayat

Author:Omar Khayyam

“Every particle of dust on a patch of earth Was a sun-cheek or brow of the morning star; Shake the dust off your sleeve carefully-- That too was a delicate, fair face.”

Book:Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Source: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain - This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies - The Flower that once has blown forever dies.”

Life Death Heaven Hell Existentialism

Book:Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Source: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.”

Knows Light Lost Caught Temples Flash Wrath Kindles Taverns

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.”

Years May Tomorrow Thousand Yesterday Thousand Years

Book:The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam

Source: The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam

“The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.”

Two Gold Logic Absolutes Metals Sovereign Seventies Grapes Sects Alchemist

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.”

Thinking Should Two Book Different Facts Attention Five Elements Six Paid Appearance Tricks Vain Propositions Geometry Algebra Obtaining Geometric

Author:Omar Khayyam

“Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.”

Ifs Giving Should Littles Book Might Sides Kings Red Lonely Give Me Wine Dear Stores Kingdoms Bread Verses Idleness Red Wine Lonely Places

Book:Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Source: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“Justice is the soul of the universe.”

Soul Universe Justice

Book:The Sufistic Quatrains

Source: The Sufistic Quatrains

“Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.”

World Two Atheism Mouths Saint Positive Atheism Foolish Dust Prophet Sage Scorn Thrust Two Worlds

Author:Omar Khayyam

“The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.”

Stories Sleep Atheism Return Rose Positive Atheism Prophet Revelations Comrade

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.”

Atheism Fool Rewards Positive Atheism

Book:The Sufistic Quatrains

Source: The Sufistic Quatrains

“The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.”

World Soul Action Despair Benevolence

Author:Omar Khayyam

“You've seen the world, and all you've seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You've sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you've treasured up at home are nothing.”

World Wells Said Home Heard Possession Horizon Treasured

Author:Omar Khayyam

“This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine.”

Heart Made Evil Speak Strong Stars Half Mines Divine Fine Fool Clay

Book:Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material

Source: Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material

“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.”

Ifs Way Heart Kind Mean Littles Soul Eye Hate Song Sin Half Cold Tongue Gentle Fists Adultery Hearted Drunkenness Measuring Mirth Cold Heart

Author:Omar Khayyam

“Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.”

Moments Heaven Sleep Eternity Drinking Mortals Diminish Weeping Grandeur Departure Arrivals Ephemeral

Author:Omar Khayyam

“Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light”

Light Night Stars Sun Fields Strikes Flight Turrets

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.”

Love Heart Eye Dies Sacrifice Offers Burning Flames Kindles Moths

Author:Omar Khayyam

“By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.”

Heart Has Beens Made Fate Strength Youth Rose Thee Woe Bud Undone

Author:Omar Khayyam

“To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.”

Heaven Sorrow Breaths Thee Counting Morrow

Book:The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám

Source: The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám

“This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.”

Doe Soul Body Moving Space Grace Pure Strikes Pitcher Tents Pure Soul

Book:Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Source: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.”

Heart Shows Kindness Deeds Foe Bosoms Reconcile Harshness Bosom Friends

Book:The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám

Source: The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám

“By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible.”

Art Helping Deals Numbers Known Objects Determination Absolutes Related Quantity Assistance Algebra

Author:Omar Khayyam

“Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.”

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.”

Firsts Lasts Morning Creation Dawn Reckoning

Book:The Rubaʼiyat of Omar Khayyām: Being a Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, with a Transcript Into Modern Persian Characters

Source: The Rubaʼiyat of Omar Khayyām: Being a Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, with a Transcript Into Modern Persian Characters

“Into this universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as wind along the wate, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.”

Knows Universe Water Knowing Wind Why Not Not Knowing

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.”

People Secret Mystery Idiot

Author:Omar Khayyam

“He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.”

Source: Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material

“To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.”

Belief Unbelief

Author:Omar Khayyam

“Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.”

Thinking Life Is Spirit Dies Dark Ill Terror Gates Mortality Dread

Book:The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám

Source: The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám

“We are thinking about bad only those who are worse than we are, and those who are better than us ... I'm just not up to us ... One does not follow it than smell roses. Another of the bitter herbs will produce honey. Give bread to one - will remember forever. Another life donation - do not understand.”

Thinking Giving Doe Remember Forever Produce Rose Smell Bread Bitter Honey Herbs Donation Another Life

Author:Omar Khayyam

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

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

Writing Moving Science Lines Half Written Fingers Wit Moving On Get Over Piety Moved On

Author:Omar Khayyam

“A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.”

Wine Bread Great Wine Jugs Bread And Wine Eating Bread

Author:Omar Khayyam

“When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.”

Want Trying Looks Happens Today Understanding Tomorrow Happenings Carpe Diem

Author:Omar Khayyam

“Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.”

Life Wisdom Today Wise Fate Tomorrow Vain Live Life Being Wise

Author:Omar Khayyam

“Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.”

Young Doors Heard Argument Doctors Saint Evermore

Book:The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Source: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.”

Might Found Doors Keys Veils

Book:The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Source: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.”

Soul Solitude Thoughtful Retiring Single Being Single Loneliness And Solitude Very Thoughtful

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.”

Knows Made Reason Mother House Bed Daughter My Friends Brave Spouse Barren Vines Second Marriage

Author:Omar Khayyam

“Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take!”

Men Giving Earth Faces Sin Forgiveness Paradise Snakes Give And Take

Book:The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Source: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“I came like Water, and like Wind I go.”

Life Water Wind

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.”

Knows Life May Littles Know How Return Departed

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?”

Life Heart Desire Bits Sorry Schemes Mould

Book:Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Source: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.”

Thinking Way Life Night Hours Portal Abode

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!”

Life Wells Moments Taste Waste Haste Halt Phantoms Momentary Caravans

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.”

Life Play Moving Night Games Pieces Lays Checks Boards Helpless Closets

Book:Persian Literature: Comprising the Sháh Námeh, the Rubáiyát, the Divan and the Gulistan

Source: Persian Literature: Comprising the Sháh Námeh, the Rubáiyát, the Divan and the Gulistan

“The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.”

Men Values Three Wealth Class Youth Appreciation Appreciated Three Things Needy Diseased

Author:Omar Khayyam

“The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.”

Ifs Wells Littles Wine Cups Silver Vineyards Vino Fine Wine Wine With Friends Wine And Friends

Author:Omar Khayyam