PoemWhile we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future.HoraceOdes · 23 BC★ 3.8
PoemWhat do the ravages of time not injure? Our parents' age (worse than our grandparents') has produced us, more worthless still, who will soon give rise to a yet more vicious generation.HoraceOdes · 23 BC★ 3.7
PoemOur fathers' age was worse than our grandfathers'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.Horace23 BC★ 3.7
PoemDo not try to find out-we're forbidden to know-what end the gods may bestow on me or you.HoraceOdes · 23 BC★ 2.1
PoemThrice blessed (and more) are they whom an unbroken bond holds and whose love, never strained by nasty quarrels, will not slip until their dying day.HoraceOdes · 23 BC★ 2.1
PoemCease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.Horace23 BC★ 2.1
PoemHe 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."Horace23 BC★ 2.0
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