Omar Khayyam

I have sought knowledge and found it to be a treasure that never diminishes.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

Live life to the fullest, for tomorrow is uncertain.

The wise man knows that he knows nothing.

Do not seek to know what is beyond your grasp.

The greatest wisdom is to know oneself.

Time is a river, and we are but drops in its current.

The stars are but dust, and we are but dreams.

Enjoy the present moment, for it is all that we have.

The path to knowledge is long and arduous, but the rewards are immeasurable.

A Hair perhaps divides the False and True; Yes, and a single Alif were the clue.

Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore—but was I sober when I swore?

Ah, but my Computations, People say, Have squared the Circle, and made crooked straight.

For all the past, and all the future, is a moment in the present.

For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time has prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.

A Moment's Halt—a momentary taste of Being from the Well amid the Waste—and Lo!—the phantom Caravan has reached the Nothing it set out from—Oh, make haste!

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine must drown the memory of that insolence! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine must drown the memory of that insolence!

Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore—but was I sober when I swore? And then—and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand my spirit to the wilderness bore.