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Classical antiquity4 quotes
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! — Horace · 23 BCCease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. — Horace · 23 BCHe 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." — Horace · 23 BCWise men don't say, "I shall live to do that". Tomorrow's life's too late; live today. — Martial · 103Old Testament Era2 quotes
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. — Ecclesiastes 8:15 · 931 BCLet us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die! — Isaiah 22:13 · 681 BCThe Renaissance1 quote
What is love? ’Tis not hereafter.
Present mirth hath present laughter.
What’s to come is still unsure.
In delay there lies no plenty,
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.
Youth’s a stuff will not endure. — William Shakespeare · 1602