Quotes by Persian authors

"Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where"

"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou"

"Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went"

"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back"

"The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it"

"Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again"

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life"

"A hair divides what is false and true"

"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse"

"There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see"

"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires"

"Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health"

"The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit"

"Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials"

"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes"

"That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence"

"As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form"