10 quotes
What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?
Satires (-35)
Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may;
With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day.
Satires (-35)
Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Life has given nothing to mortals without great labor.
Satires (-35)
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."
Odes (-23)
Tomorrow we will be back on the vast ocean.
He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide on forever.
That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.