سندبادنامه 68.1

68.1

For many thousands of years, sages, men of intellect, scholars, and men of excellence applied sound judgments
and employed piercing contrivances to fashion a shield against the wound of the sword of the Angel of Death,
so that his blow might be repelled thereby, and to make an antidote against the draught of the poison of time's wrath, so that
its harm might be dispelled thereby; but it did not come within the realm of ease, nor did it fit into the center of possibility.