Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro.He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine. Book III, ode xxix, line 41.Cf. Drydens paraphrase: Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.

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