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Cease your efforts to find where the last rose lingers. — Horace

Poem

Cease your efforts to find where the last rose lingers.

In the original Latin

Mitte sectari, rosa quo locorum sera moretur

Horace
23 BC
★ 2.2
Other tags relating to this quote
Topic
ContentmentLetting go
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. 38.
Original citation
Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 1, no. 38.

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