Ali book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 35 (p. 563)
Ali book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
“From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,If England to itself do rest but true", William Shakespeare, King John, Act v. Sc. 7.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
“Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Untimely Meditations
trans. Hollingdale (1983), “Schopenhauer as educator,” p. 158
Untimely Meditations (1876)
Sarmad Kashani (1590–1661) Persian mystic, poet and saint
Source: [Asiri 1950, No. 334] Asiri 1950 — Asiri, Fazl Mahmud. Rubaiyat-i-Sarmad. Shantiniketan, 1950. Quoted from SARMAD: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SUFI https://iphras.ru/uplfile/smirnov/ishraq/3/24_prig.pdf by N. Prigarina
“Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VIII, 34
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Context: Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself. God has allowed this to no other part, after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again.... he has distinguished man, for he has put it in his power not to be separated at all from the universal... he has allowed him to be returned and to be united and to resume his place as a part.
“Today, let us make haste to enjoy life. Who knows if we will be tomorrow?”
Hâtons-nous aujourd'hui de jouir de la vie. Qui sait si nous serons demain?
Athalie, act II, scene IX.
Athalie (1691)
“If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.”
Robert Herrick book Hesperides
"The End".
Hesperides (1648)