“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End!”

The Rubaiyat (1120)

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

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