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Horace on Anniversary

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Now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.

Odes (-23)

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

In the hour's short space comes swift death, or joyful victory.

Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.

Odes (-23)

While we are speaking envious time will have fled. Seize the present day.

Happy and thrice happy are they who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day.

Each passing year robs us of some possession.

None knows the reason why this curse
Was sent on him, this love of making verse.

Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (-18)

What does not destructive time destroy?

Postumus, Postumus, the years glide by us:
Alas! no piety delays the wrinkles,
Nor the indomitable hand of Death.

In vain did Nature's wife command
Divide the waters from the land,
If daring ships and men profane,
Invade th' inviolable main.

Odes (-23)

Here, shelter'd by a friendly tree,
In Teian measures you shall sing
Bright Circe and Penelope,
Love-smitten both by one sharp sting.

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