Odes (Horace) the inventor of the lyre; skilled in craft and cunning; and the conductor of souls to the Underworld. I.11, "Tu ne quaesieris..." – Carpe Diem! – The poet seeks to dissuade Leuconoe from giving heed to the false arts of astrologers and diviners. It is vain to inquire into the future – Let us enjoy the present, for this is all we can command. It closes with the famous line: "carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero" (Seize the day, trusting tomorrow as little as possible). I.12, "Quem virum aut heroa lyra..." – The Praises of Augustus – The poet praises
G. K. Chesterton against complacent acceptance of the conventional view of things. Chesterton's style and thinking were all his own, however, and his conclusions were often opposed to those of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. In his book "Heretics", Chesterton has this to say of Wilde: "The same lesson [of the pessimistic pleasure-seeker] was taught by the very powerful and very desolate philosophy of Oscar Wilde. It is the carpe diem religion; but the carpe diem religion is not the religion of happy people, but of very unhappy people. Great joy does not gather the rosebuds while it may; its eyes are