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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that… — Horace

Poem

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

In the original Latin

quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere et quem Fors dierum cumque dabit.

Horace
23 BC
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Other tags relating to this quote
Topic
GratitudeLiving in the moment
Statement type
Advice
Medium
Poem
Time
23 BCClassical antiquity
Person
Horace
Provenance
Current citation
Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, no. 9.
Original citation
Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 1, no. 9.

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