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While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future. — Horace

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While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future.

In the original Latin

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

Horace
Odes · 23 BC
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Carpe diemWasting timeTime
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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. 11.
Original citation
Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 1, no. 11.

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