carpe diem
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin carpe diem (“seize the day”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proverb[edit]
- Seize the day, make the most of today, enjoy the present.
- 1905, G. K. Chesterton, Heretics[1], New York: John Lane, OL 24174141M:
- It is the carpe diem religion; but the carpe diem religion is not the religion of happy people, but of very unhappy people.
- 2007 July 30, Lee Harris, “Can Carpe Diem Societies Survive?”, in The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West, New York: Basic Books, ISBN 9780465002030, LCCN 2007007954, OL 9697473M, page 241:
- Indeed, in an extreme carpe diem society, children are raised without being given any sense that they have a transgenerational duty to the as yet unborn— the duty to leave them a better world.
- 2011 January 29, “Rollercoaster: The Musical!”, Phineas and Ferb season 2 episode 38, “Carpe Diem” (song):
- Just grab those opportunities when you see 'em / Cause every day's a brand new day, you gotta carpe diem
- 1905, G. K. Chesterton, Heretics[1], New York: John Lane, OL 24174141M:
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
seize the day
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See also[edit]
- take the bull by the horns
- the world is your oyster
- YOLO
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Horace, Odes I.xi.8: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero, meaning “seize the day while trusting little on what tomorrow might bring”.
