“Oh, Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin
Beset the Road I was to wander in,
Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round
Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!”

— Omar Khayyám

The Rubaiyat (1120)

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

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