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Three quotations from The Diwan by Nasir-I-Khusraw (eleventh-century Persian poet, traveller, and mystic):

1) Ere me from their earthly casings uncounted spirits have fled,
And I, though long I linger, may be counted already dead.

2) For Satan had caught and constrained me to walk in his captives' train,
      And 'twas Reason who came and saved me, and gave me freedom again.

3) My soul is higher than Fortune;
      then why should I Fortune fear?

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 6 : Islamic Cultures, Egypt > # 30