, which can be translated as "Seize the day, put identical little trust in tomorrow (the future)". The ode says that the future is out of the blue and that one should not leave to chance future happenings, but quite one should do all one can twenty-four hours to make one's future better. This phrase is usually understood against Horace's Carpe Diem Poem | Latin Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios temptaris numeros. seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam, quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare Tyrrhenum.