And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press, End in the Nothing all Things end in—Yes—Then fancy while thou art, thou art but what Thou shalt be—Nothing—Thou shalt not be less.
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza LXXIV
c. 11th-12th century
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"The wise men tell us that the soul is not a thing, but a relation. That is true, for the soul is a relation of the body to the universe, and of the universe to the body."
Strange & Unusual"Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!"
Strange & Unusual"The pleasures of this world are fleeting, but the sorrows are eternal."
Controversial"For we are helpless pieces of the game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays."
Strange & Unusual"Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn I lean'd, the Secret of my Life to learn: And Lip to Lip it murmur'd—'While you live, Drink!—for, once dead, you never shall return.'"
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