Tes meilleurs amis sont morts. La tristesse est ta seule compagne.
Mais, relève la tête! Ouvre tes mains! Saisis ce que tu désires
et ce que tu peux atteindre. Le passé est un cadavre que tu dois enterrer.
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Look around you: you will see nothing but desolation and anguish.
Your best friends have died. Sadness is your only companion.
But raise up your head, and stretch forth your hands! Take all that you desire
and can get. The past is a corpse which you must bury.
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Omar Khayyâm (1048-1131) – Quatrains