“Indeed the Idols I have loved so long
Have done my credit in this World much wrong:
Have drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup
And sold my Reputation for a Song.”

—  Omar Khayyám

Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)

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Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer 1048–1131

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