It is a shame for anyone to be well-known for righteousness… - Omar Khayyám

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It is a shame for anyone
to be well-known for righteousness.
It is a great disgrace to feel
distress at the injustice of
the turning of the wheels of fate.

Omar Khayyám

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About Omar Khayyám

Omar Khayyam [ عمر خیام Persian] (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, writer, and poet; originally named Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath Omar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi Khayyámi (غیاث الدین ابو الفتح عمر بن ابراهیم خیام نیشابوری) Edward FitzGerald's translations of his poetic Rubaiyat (Quatrains) were immensely popular, and remain influential.

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Pen Names: خیام

Native Name: حکیم عُمَر خَیّام نیشابوری • غیاث الدین ابو الفتح عمر بن ابراهیم خیام نیشاپوری

Alternative Names: Omar Khayyam • Hakim Omar Khayyám

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I value the lover's
sighs of happiness and I despise the hypocrite
mumbling his prayers.

We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life,which in the end we leave,only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.

Scholars really have nothing to teach you.
But from the soft touch of the eyelashes of
a woman you will know all there is to know about happiness.
Buy wine, take it to
a secluded place and let it comfort you.

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