Live each day as though it were your last.
-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (known as Horace, 65-8 BC, Latin poet)
活出每個人生中的最後一天。
-- 昆圖斯‧賀雷修斯‧佛拉克斯 (多稱賀拉斯,西元前65年-西元前8年,古羅馬詩人)
BC= B.C. = before Christ 基督出生之前、西元前、公元前;
AD= A.D. = anno Domini (in the year of Lord) 主年、主曆、西元、公元;可省略。
BC/AD的紀年系統為西元六世紀時的基督教神學家德奧尼修斯‧伊希格斯所建議使用。
目前國際社會則使用BCE/CE紀年系統,用來以淡化宗教色彩和更正耶穌出生年份應為西元前六年,而非西元元年的謬誤。
BCE = before the Common/Current Era 公元前、西元前
CE = the Common/Current Era 公元、西元;可省略。
If you live each day as if it were your last -- and someday you'll most certainly be right.
-- John Florence Sullivan (professionally known as Fred Allen, American comedian, 1894-1956)
如果你每一天都當最後一天在活,那當然總有一天你會是對的。
-- 約翰‧佛羅倫斯‧蘇利文 (藝名為佛萊德‧阿倫,美國喜劇演員)
If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?
-- Steven Paul Jobs (known as Steve Jobs, American entrepreneur)
如果今天是我生命中的最後一天,那我會想要做今天要做的事情嗎?
-- 史蒂文‧保羅‧賈伯斯 (通稱史蒂夫‧賈伯斯,美國企業家)