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Forgive, but do not forget, and be the strong horse. While we speak, a jealous age will have fled. Seize the day! Trust as little as you can in tomorrow. The Latin poet Horace’s advice of carpe diem— to seize the day and not worry about tomorrow — should be Trump’s transitional guide. The attacks on Trump won’t even wait until he takes office; they begin now, well apart from rioting in the streets. And they will continue to be of several types. Of the personal sort, expect more “investigative” reporting and “speaking truth to power” op-eds about his tax...

ROCHESTER, NY--According to the Democrat & Chronicle (which cannot be reposted here thanks to the cretins at Gannett news), "Former nurse's aide John Horace, imprisoned for raping and impregnating a comatose woman, claimed to the state Parole Board that he committed his crime because he thought a pregnancy could jolt the woman from her coma."The paper notes that the woman gave birth to a son in March 1996, and died in March 1997 of natural causes unconnected to the rape. She'd been comatose for more than a decade from injuries suffered in a car accident, the paper reported.According to the...

Now if it were true that Horace and the great poets of the English Renaissance advocated the pursuit of pleasure in response to aging and death, textbook publishers could be reproached with at most a failure to warn students that pleasure is not the same thing as happiness, which is the result of virtue. But it is not true. And finding out why it is not true means unlearning most of what we have been taught about English literature and learning how to fill the rest of our lives with glimpses of heaven.