Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero

Feb 13, 2009 12:35

Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios tempatris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati. seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit luppiter ultimam, quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare Tyrrhenum: sapias vina liques et saptio brevi spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: CARPE DIEM QUAM MINIMUM CREDULA POSTERO.

Don't ask what final fate the gods have, what end the gods will give me or you, Leuconoe. Don't play with Babylonian fortune-telling either. It is better to endure whatever will be. Whether Jupiter has allotted to you many more winters or this final one which even now wears out the Tyrrhenian sea on the rocks placed opposite - be smart, drink your wine. Scale back your long hopes to a short period. While we speak, envious time will have already fled. SIEZE THE DAY AND PLACE NO TRUST IN TOMORROW.
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