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

— Horace Odes (-23)

Dum loquimur, fugerit invida
Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

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John Conington's translation | In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebbed away, Seize the present, trust tomorrow e'en as little as you may.

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