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Updated: June 15, 2025
So carpe diem, say I. And perhaps you remember that sentence from Epictetus you once wrote out on a slip of paper and pinned to my bedroom door: 'Better it is that great souls should live in small habitations than that abject slaves should burrow in great houses!" Dinky-Dunk, as I sat brushing back his top-knot, regarded me with a sad and slightly acidulated smile.
Nobody knew anything about it; the thing had vanished, leaving no trace of the thief behind. Perhaps Merritt would have been less easy in Littimer's society had he known that the missing print was securely locked away in the latter's strong room. Still, had Merritt been acquainted with the classics, carpe diem would like as not have been his favourite motto.
They consisted of a tapestry with garlands of flowers, and medallions. In each medallion were the letters S.P.Q.R. and various epicurean phrases of the Romans: "Carpe diem. Post mortem nulla voluptas," et cetera. "Beautiful decoration, but very cold," said Caesar. "I should prefer rather fewer mottoes and a little more warmth." "You are very hard to please," retorted Laura.
Too much blood is as unwholesome as too little, notwithstanding of any extraneous means to work it off. "Slow and sure," is their motto "Carpe diem," essentially that of their antagonists. And yet in one thing, we believe, most individuals holding these opposite opinions will be found to concur. They all speculate.
At any rate, one could but do one's best, and I hoped that a higher power than all that which was around would not overlook me or any other fellows on that day. At one time, not very long before the moment of attack, I felt to its intensest depth the truth of the proverb, "Carpe diem." What was time? I had another twenty minutes in which to live in comparative safety.
What has after-success, honour, wealth, fame, or, power burdened, as they always are, with ambitions, blunders, jealousies, cares, regrets, and failing health to match with this enjoyment of the young, the bright, the bygone, hour? The wisdom of the worldly teacher at least, the CARPE DIEM was practised here before the injunction was ever thought of.
For those of us, perhaps more than a few, who have no assurance of the leisure of an eternity for idleness or experiment, this expansion and elevation of the doctrine of the moment, carrying a merely sensual and trivial moral in the Horatian maxim of carpe diem, is one thrillingly charged with exhilaration and sounding a solemn and yet seductive challenge to us to make the most indeed, but also to make the best, of our little day.
"What is Carpe Diem?" asked Frances Sutherland, gazing after the priest in sheer wonder. "I wasn't strong on classics at Laval and I haven't my crib." "Go on!" she commanded. "You're only apologizing for my ignorance. You know very well." "It means just what he says as if each day were a flower, you know, had its joys to be plucked, that can never come again." "Flowers! Oh! I know!
The motto 'Carpe diem, which I had found in my father's Horace and had engraved upon my seal ring, unexpectedly gained a new significance by no longer translating it "enjoy," but "use the day," till the time came when the two meanings seemed identical.
The motto 'Carpe diem, which I had found in my father's Horace and had engraved upon my seal ring, unexpectedly gained a new significance by no longer translating it "enjoy," but "use the day," till the time came when the two meanings seemed identical.
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