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“Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word "happy" in reserve. Till then, he is not happy, but only lucky...”
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“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“پر كن پياله را
كاين آب آتشين
ديريست ره به حال خرابم نميبرد
اين جامها كه در پي هم ميشوند
درياي آتش است كه ريزم به كام خويش
گردآب ميربايد و آبم نميبرد
من با سمند سركش و جادويي شراب
تا بيكران عالم پندار رفتهام
تا دشت پر ستارهي انديشههاي گرم
تا مرز ناشناختهي مرگ و زندگي
تا كوچه باغ خاطرههاي گريز پا
تا شهر يادها
ديگر شراب هم جز تا كنار بستر خوابم نميبرد
هان اي عقاب عشق!
از اوج قلههاي مه آلود دوردست
پرواز كن به دشت غمانگيز عمر من
آنجا ببر مرا كه شرابم نمي برد
آن بي ستارهام كه عقابم نمي برد
در راه زندگي
با اين همه تلاش و تمنا و تشنگي
با اينكه ناله ميكشم از دل كه :
آب ... آب ...
ديگر فريب هم به سرابم نمي برد
پر كن پياله را ”
―
كاين آب آتشين
ديريست ره به حال خرابم نميبرد
اين جامها كه در پي هم ميشوند
درياي آتش است كه ريزم به كام خويش
گردآب ميربايد و آبم نميبرد
من با سمند سركش و جادويي شراب
تا بيكران عالم پندار رفتهام
تا دشت پر ستارهي انديشههاي گرم
تا مرز ناشناختهي مرگ و زندگي
تا كوچه باغ خاطرههاي گريز پا
تا شهر يادها
ديگر شراب هم جز تا كنار بستر خوابم نميبرد
هان اي عقاب عشق!
از اوج قلههاي مه آلود دوردست
پرواز كن به دشت غمانگيز عمر من
آنجا ببر مرا كه شرابم نمي برد
آن بي ستارهام كه عقابم نمي برد
در راه زندگي
با اين همه تلاش و تمنا و تشنگي
با اينكه ناله ميكشم از دل كه :
آب ... آب ...
ديگر فريب هم به سرابم نمي برد
پر كن پياله را ”
―
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