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The term Carpe Diem was first coined by lyric poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC – 8 BC) in Odes Book I:

Dum loquimur, While we’re talking,

Fugerit invida aetas: Envious time is fleeing:

Carpe diem, pluck the day,

Quam minimum credula postero. Put no trust in the future.