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If you will do some deed before you die,
Remember not this caravan of death,
But have belief that every little breath
Will stay with you for an eternity.


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They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!

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The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts:
Those with brains, but no religion,
And those with religion, but no brains.


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Al-Maʿarri

Born: 973
Died: 1057 (aged 84)
Bio: Abul ʿAla Al-Maʿarri was a blind Arab philosopher, poet, and writer. Born in modern day Maarrat al-Nuʿman, Syria, he studied at Aleppo, Tripoli and Antioch. Producing popular poems in Baghdad, he nevertheless refused to sell his texts.

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