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Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die") [2] is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. [2] The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity , and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period onwards.
memento mori: remember that [you will] die: remember your mortality; medieval Latin based on "memento moriendum esse" in antiquity. [5] memento vivere: remember to live: meminerunt omnia amantes: lovers remember all: memores acti prudentes futuri: mindful of things done, aware of things to come: Thus, both remembering the past and foreseeing ...
That is, in law, irrelevant and/or inconsequential. nihil boni sine labore: nothing achieved without hard work: Motto of Palmerston North Boys' High School: nihil dicit: he says nothing: In law, a declination by a defendant to answer charges or put in a plea. nihil difficile amanti puto [4] Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover. From ...
Danemunro.com Archived 2017-06-30 at the Wayback Machine, an article on memento mori and ars moriendi appearing in the publication of Dane Munro, Memento Mori, a companion to the most beautiful floor in the world (Malta, 2005) ISBN 9789993290117, 2 vols. The ars moriendi eulogies of the Knights of the Order of St John. Ars moriendi. Germany, c ...
It is used in law to describe a decision or action that is motivated by hatred or anger instead of reason and is detrimental to those whom it affects. ab origine: from the source: i.e., from the origin, beginning, source, or commencement; or, "originally". Root of the word aboriginal. ab ovo: from the egg: i.e., from the beginning or origin.
the chain of the law: The phrase denotes that a thing is legally binding. "A civil obligation is one which has a binding operation in law, vinculum juris." (Bouvier's Law Dictionary (1856), "Obligation") vinum et musica laetificant cor: wine and music gladden the heart: Asterix and Caesar's Gift; it is a variation of "vinum bonum laetificat cor ...
It is used in law to describe a decision or action that is motivated by hatred or anger instead of reason and is detrimental to those whom it affects. ab origine: from the source: i.e., from the origin, beginning, source, or commencement; or, "originally". Root of the word aboriginal. ab ovo: from the egg: i.e., from the beginning or origin.
Thus, "what you are, I was; what I am, you will be.". A memento mori gravestone inscription to remind the reader that death is unavoidable (cf. sum quod eris). tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito: you should not give in to evils, but proceed ever more boldly against them: From Virgil, Aeneid, 6, 95. "Ne cede malis" is the motto of The Bronx.