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#circumstances — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. A quotation from Horace

    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/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting

  2. ""#aborted #fetuses are not #technically #lives and it's #harmful and not #medically #accurate to refer to them that way" and "#people who have early #miscarriages of wanted #pregnancies are still #allowed to grieve and consider them their #child" are two #statements that can and should #coexist"

    ""people who made the difficult #decision to have an #abortion #because it's right for them and their #situation are still allowed to grieve how things could have been if their #circumstances had been different" is another statement that should be added"

    #ausgov #politas

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