Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer
Rubáiyát, 74 [tr. FitzGerald, 4th ed. (1879)]
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