Quatrain 74

Quatrain 74 from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Since fate and life can't be more or less made

Let not the heart by more or less be swayed

چون روزی و عمر بیش و کم نتوان کرد

دل را به کم و بیش دُژَم نتوان کرد

Our affairs are not as we wish them to be

Even wax in our hands can't be thus shaped

کارِ من و تو چنان‌که رایِ من و توست

از موم به دستِ خویش هم نتوان کرد