#circumstances — Public Fediverse posts
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He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
[Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/
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@philip_cardella unfortunately, #thanks to #ChistopherLloyd and his #docBrown #character from #BackToTheFurure #movie #film all anyone can think is "1.21 jigawattz" and have a #lightHearted #chuckle about it all.
I like a #laugh as much as the next person but,
Let's not get all #truth is #stranger than #fiction though,
#fine in #fun #cherishable #moment #circumstances but not in #fullScale #nuclearWar #brinkmanship #www #moments