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Omar Khayyam, who lived from 1048 to 1123 of the Christian era, was a Persian mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and above all poet. He compiled astronomical tables and contributed to the Persian calendar reform and discovered a geometrical method of solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with a circle. Omar Khayyam's poetic work (“Rubaiyat”) has eclipsed his fame as a mathematician and scientist. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a lyric poem in quatrains (four-line stanzas). :Omar Khayyam, who lived from 1048 to 1123 of the Christian era, was a Persian mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and above all poet. He compiled astronomical tables and contributed to the Persian calendar reform and discovered a geometrical method of solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with a circle. Omar Khayyam's poetic work (“Rubaiyat”) has eclipsed his fame as a mathematician and scientist. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a lyric poem in quatrains (four-line stanzas).


Everyone knows that I never mumbled prayers.Everyone also knows I never tried to hide my faults.I don't know whether a higher Judge and ahigher Kindness exist - but still,I am full of confidence as I havealways been true to myself. :Everyone knows that I never mumbled prayers.Everyone also knows I never tried to hide my faults.I don't know whether a higher Judge and ahigher Kindness exist - but still,I am full of confidence as I havealways been true to myself.


What do you prefer?To sit down in a wine house and thereto investigate yourself and your conscience,or to kneel down in a church or mosque without your soulparticipating?. I don't even think about whetheror not we have a Master and whathe will do with us if he exists. :What do you prefer?To sit down in a wine house and thereto investigate yourself and your conscience,or to kneel down in a church or mosque without your soulparticipating?. I don't even think about whetheror not we have a Master and whathe will do with us if he exists.


Look with compassionat the heavy drinkers. Know, that you toohave your weaknesses. If you want to live in peaceand clarity, then look at the poor and the handicappedcarrying the burden of their misery,and see how fortunate you are!. :Look with compassionat the heavy drinkers. Know, that you toohave your weaknesses. If you want to live in peaceand clarity, then look at the poor and the handicappedcarrying the burden of their misery,and see how fortunate you are!.


Live in such way, that yourrighteousness and knowledge doesnot trouble others. Be calm and master of yourself.Don't allow yourself to be aggressive.If you truly want to live in peace,smile at your Fate. :Live in such way, that yourrighteousness and knowledge doesnot trouble others. Be calm and master of yourself.Don't allow yourself to be aggressive.If you truly want to live in peace,smile at your Fate.


Be happy today,as you don't know what tomorrow will bring.Take some wine, sit down in the light of the moonand say to yourself that tomorrow that moonmay look for you in vain. :Be happy today,as you don't know what tomorrow will bring.Take some wine, sit down in the light of the moonand say to yourself that tomorrow that moonmay look for you in vain.


Be happy that you have few friends.Don't feel obliged to show them endless sympathy.Before you shake hands, before you considersomeone a friend, ask yourself whether you are not shaking a hand thatmay one day beat you. :Be happy that you have few friends.Don't feel obliged to show them endless sympathy.Before you shake hands, before you considersomeone a friend, ask yourself whether you are not shaking a hand thatmay one day beat you.


How sad, a heart thatdoes not know how to love, thatdoes not know what it is to be drunk with love.If you are not in love, how can you enjoythe blinding light of the sun,the soft light of the moon?. :How sad, a heart thatdoes not know how to love, thatdoes not know what it is to be drunk with love.If you are not in love, how can you enjoythe blinding light of the sun,the soft light of the moon?.


You know that you haveno power or choice regarding your fate.So why should the uncertainty about whatmay happen tomorrow fill you with fear?. If youare truly wise, live now! The future?Who knows what it will bring. :You know that you haveno power or choice regarding your fate.So why should the uncertainty about whatmay happen tomorrow fill you with fear?. If youare truly wise, live now! The future?Who knows what it will bring.


Beyond the earth,beyond the farthest skiesI try to find Heaven and Hell.Then I hear a solemn voice that says:"Heaven and hell are inside". :Beyond the earth,beyond the farthest skiesI try to find Heaven and Hell.Then I hear a solemn voice that says:"Heaven and hell are inside".


Our days pass as fastas the water of the riveror the wind of the desert.But there are two days thatdo not interest me: yesterdayand tomorrow. :Our days pass as fastas the water of the riveror the wind of the desert.But there are two days thatdo not interest me: yesterdayand tomorrow.


Realise this: one day your soulwill depart from your body and you willbe drawn behind the curtain that floats between usand the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy,because you don't know where you came from andyou don't know where you will be going. :Realise this: one day your soulwill depart from your body and you willbe drawn behind the curtain that floats between usand the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy,because you don't know where you came from andyou don't know where you will be going.


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