While you live, drink!—for, once dead, you never shall return.
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat (common theme, exact phrasing can vary by translation)
c. 11th-12th Century
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"Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore—but was I sober when I swore?"
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