English term
Live life for today because tomorrow my never come
| 5 +2 | Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero |
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Proposed translations
Greece
hellenic wings in translation
Native in: Greek 
Works in: English to Greek, Greek to English
Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero
The whole idea is first mentioned by the Romans as you will see below:
Use in Poetry
This rule of life is found in the "Odes" (I, 11.8) of the Roman poet Horace (65 - 8 BC), where it reads:
Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero
(pluck the day, never trust the next)
It is quoted accordingly either as a demand not to waste somebody's time with useless things, or as a justification for pleasure and joy of life with little fear for the future.
This idea was popular in 16th and 17th-century English poetry, for example in Robert Herrick's To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, which begins "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may". [1] It is interesting to note that the following Chinese couplet attributed to a certain poetess in Tang Dynasty, which have entered the realm of proverbs, strikingly resemble Herrick's line:
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