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Carpe Diem

Carpe Diem (Creator Mundi)

Carpe Diem :: 1187602_ws

  • solid bronze
  • from the art studios of Butzon and Bercker, Germany
  • 1 x 1.63 inches
  • gift box included
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Seize the day. Give every day the chance to become the best and most beautiful day of your life.

Carpe Diem is Latin for "Seize the day."

Original usage from the Odes of Horace, 1.11, in Latin and English:

Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati.
seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Tyrrhenum: sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi
spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida
aetas: carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.

Leuconoe, don't ask — it's a sin to know —
what end the gods will give me or you. Don't play with Babylonian
fortune-telling either. It is better to endure whatever will be.
Whether Jupiter has allotted to you many more winters or this final one
which even now wears out the Tyrrhenian sea on the rocks placed opposite
— be smart, drink your wine. Scale back your long hopes
to a short period. While we speak, envious time will have already fled
Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.

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