W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
The Mixture As Before (1940) "The Treasure"
Short Stories
“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.”
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“Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may;
With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day.”
Dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus;
Vive memor quam sis aevi brevis.
Book II, satire viii, line 96 (trans. Conington)
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
“Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may;
With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus;
Vive memor quam sis aevi brevis.
Book II, satire viii, line 96 (trans. Conington)
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Satires
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
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