He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have… — Horace
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."
In the original Latin
Ille potens sui, laetusque deget, cui licet in diem, dixisse "Vixi: cras vel atra nube polem pater occupato vel sole puro."
23 BC
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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 29.
Original citation
Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 29.
