Carpe diem is part of Horace’s injunction “carpe diem quam minimum credula postero,” which appears in his Odes, published in 23 BC. It can be translated literally as “pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one.” The phrase is more widely known as “seize the day”.
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