“Would you that spangle of Existence spend
About the Secret — Quick about it, Friend!
A Hair perhaps divides the False and True —
And upon what, prithee, may life depend?”

—  Omar Khayyám

Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)

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

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