A thousand selected aphorisms and sayings of Omar Khayyam from scientific and poetic works. The sage's reflections on love and happiness, on truth and fate, on sadness and delusions, on desires and passions are paradoxical in essence and aphoristic in form. The gift edition is richly decorated with Persian miniatures of the 15th-19th centuries, illustrations for Khayyam's poems, as well as magnificent masterpieces of painting.