Ode I-XI Carpe Diem
Journal Entry: Sun Feb 3, 2008, 8:02 AM
The most famous of Horace's odes uses agricultural metaphors to urge us to embrace the pleasures available in everyday life instead of relying on remote aspirations for the futurehence his immortal motto Carpe Diem......
Tu ne quaesierisscire nefasquem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoë, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. ut melius, quicquid erit, pati!
seu plures hiemes, seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Tyrhenum. Sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi
spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
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Ask notwe cannot knowwhat end the gods have set for you, for me; nor attempt the Babylonian reckonings Leuconoë. How much better to endure whatever comes, whether Jupiter grants us additional winters or whether this is our last, which now wears out the Tuscan Sea upon the barrier of the cliffs! Be wise, strain the wine; and since life is brief, prune back far-reaching hopes! Even while we speak, envious time has passed: pluck the day, putting as little trust as possible in tomorrow!
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
- Mood:
Love - Listening to: 6 8 12 song of Brian McKnight
- Reading: the Nikon D300 manual
- Watching: the nikon ad "through the years"
- Eating: dried apricots
- Drinking: green tea and freezing H2O
Devious Comments
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Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
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I would like to finish on a message of hope. I do not have any. In exchange, two messages of despair would suit you? Woody Allen
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Dont be arfaid of death.
Be afraid of the unlived life.
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Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
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"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
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It never ceases to amaze me how it's always the small things that really matter...
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there is no scene in life that is an insignificant sight
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