carpe diem

His motto was "Carpe diem," and he carefully contrived to live down to it.

He plucks the present—carpe diem, as Horace sings, and never for an instant troubles himself about the future.

In the mountains, as we are thus again shown, carpe diem is a wise blazon.

At one time, not very long before the moment of attack, I felt to its intensest depth the truth of the proverb, "Carpe diem."

He understands the epicurean precept of 'carpe diem' in a sense more befitting to human dignity.