A quotation from Omar Khayyam:

«
Last night I smote the winecup on a stone;
For such mad folly how may I atone?
The shatter’d cup, in mystic language, said,
“I was like thee, my fate shall be thine own.”
»

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https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/74205/

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