“Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who
Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel too.”

The Rubaiyat (1120)

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

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