WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/horace/77996/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Horace</b></a></p><blockquote> Remember, all<br>Who live on earth are mortal, great and small:<br>Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may;<br>With life so short ’twere wrong to lose a day.<br> <br><i>[Carpe viam, mihi crede, comes, terrestria quando<br>mortalis animas vivunt sortita neque ulla est<br>aut magno aut parvo leti fuga: quo, bone, circa,<br>dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus;<br>vive memor quam sis aevi brevis.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Horace</b> (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]<br><i>Satires [Saturae, Sermones],</i> Book 2, # 6, <i>“Hoc erat in votis,”</i> l. 93ff (2.6.93-97) (30 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, other translations: <a href="https://wist.info/horace/77996/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/horace/77996/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=horace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horace</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=brevity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brevity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=carpediem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carpediem</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>death</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=enjoyment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enjoyment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=livefortheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>livefortheday</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mindfulness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mindfulness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mortality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mortality</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pleasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pleasure</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=seizetheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seizetheday</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=living" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>living</span></a></p>