Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

wine counsel in a transient world

wine_counsel_in_a_transient_world

A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family, within the sub-family Wine, Consolation, and Mortality. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

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sufi

  • The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 11733-11935 confidence: high

    The speaker urges a friend to fill the cup and drink deeply because time is not a friend and does not willingly repeat such a day.

    Repeated counsel to drink is tied to the shortness of time, the world's unreliability, and the claim that most else is naught.

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