Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus
23 BC · Rome
Even as we speak, envious time will have fled. Seize the day, and trust tomorrow as little as you can.
Dum loquimur, fugerit inuida
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Odes 1.11
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Luo Yin 羅隱
later 9th century · Tang China
When I win I sing aloud; when I lose I let it go. So much sorrow, so much regret, and I take it easy still. If there is wine this morning, this morning I get drunk. If trouble comes tomorrow, tomorrow I shall trouble.
得即高歌失即休，多愁多恨亦悠悠。
今朝有酒今朝醉，明日愁來明日愁。"Consoling Myself," in the Complete Tang Poems
Seneca Lucius Annaeus Seneca
c. AD 49 · Roman Empire
It is not that we have little time, but that we have wasted much of it.
Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus.On the Shortness of Life, chapter 1
Henry David Thoreau
1854 · Massachusetts, USA
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Walden, "Economy"
Zuhayr زهير بن أبي سلمى
c. 600 · pre-Islamic Arabia
I know what today holds, and yesterday before it, but to what tomorrow holds I am blind.
وأعلم ما في اليوم ، والأمس ، قبله
ولكنني عن علم ما في غد عمThe Muallaqa, Divan of Zuhayr
Ishikawa Takuboku 石川啄木
New Year's Day 1911 · Meiji Japan · He died the following spring; the collection came out after his death
Somehow it feels as if good things will happen this year. New Year's morning, clear, no wind.
何となく、
今年はよい事あるごとし。
元日の朝、晴れて風無し。Tanka collection Sad Toys (Kanashiki gangu)
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