How to Live

Don't waste your time Leuconoe, living in fear and hope

Of the imprevisible future; forget the horoscope.

Accept whatever happens. Whether the Gods allow us

Fifty winters more or drop us at this one now

Which flings the high Tyrrhenian waves on the stone piers.

Decant your wine; the days are more fun than the years

Which pass us by while we discuss them. Act with Zest

One day at a time, and never mind the rest.

 

Horace, Odes, Book 1, 11: "How to Live"

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