Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Solomon ibn Gabirol

Born: 1021
Died: 1058 (aged 37)
Bio: Solomon ibn Gabirol was an 11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neo-Platonic bent. He published over a hundred poems, as well as works of biblical exegesis, philosophy, ethics.:xxvii and satire.
Known for:
- Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol
- A crown for the king
- The improvement of the moral qualities
- The Fountain of Life: Fons Vitae