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Horace: Book I, Ode 2 / "_Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, / quem tibi_"
AD LEUCONOEN
Look not, Leuconoe, into the future; / Seek not to find what the Answer may be; / Let no Chaldean clairvoyant compute your / Time of existence. It irritates me!
Better to bear what may happen soever / Patiently, playing it through like a sport, / Whether the end of your breathing is Never, / Or, as is likely, your time will be short.
This is the angle, the true situation; / Get me, I pray, for I'm putting you hep: / While I've been fooling with versification / Time has been flying. Both gates!
Watch your step!