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Carpe Diem - Seize the DAY!

 

Carpe Diem is a Latin aphorism, usually translated to "Seize the Day"

taken from the Roman poet Horace's Odes (23 BC).

 

Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi finem di dederint,

Leuconoe, nec Babylonios temptaris numeros. ut melius,

quidquid erit, pati. seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,

quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare Tyrrhenum.

Sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi spem longam reseces.

dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas:

carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

 

Don't ask (it's forbidden to know) what end the gods have given me or you, Leuconoe.

Don't play with Babylonian numerology either.

How much better it is to endure whatever will be!

Whether Jupiter has allotted you many more winters or this one,

which even now wears out the Tyrrhenian sea on the opposing rocks, is the final one be wise,

be truthful, strain the wine, and scale back your long hopes to a short period.

While we speak, envious time will have {already} fled:

seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the next day.