What does life give me in the end but sorrow? What do love'… - Hafez

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What does life give me in the end but sorrow?
What do love's good and evil send but sorrow?
I've only seen one true companion - pain,
And I have known no faithful friend but sorrow.

Hafez

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Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī (known by his pen name Hafez or Hāfiz) (1325/26–1389/90) was a Persian mystic poet.

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Pen Names: حافظ

Native Name: خواجه شمس‌الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی

Alternative Names: of Shiraz Šams-al-Din Moḥammad • Anacreon of Persia • Khāja Shamsu Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī • Shamsoddin Mohammad Hafez-e Shirazi • Ḥāfeẓ • Moḥammed Shams od-Dīn Ḥafeẓ • Ḥāfiẓ • Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī • Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī • Shams-ud-Din Mohammed • Moḥammed Šams al-Dīn Ḥafeẓ • Hafiz • Khafiz • Hafis • Haafiz • Häfiz

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"And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky."

In ancient Greece, for example, they were identified with the wisdom (sophia) schools of Pythagoras and Plato.

Young lad,may you be an old man,listen to my advice.
Love does not put much stock on wisdom:
deny it if you desire to caress the tresses of the beloved.

What does life give me in the end but sorrow? What do love's good and evil send but sorrow? I've only seen one true companion - pain, And I have know… - Hafez

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