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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 ...
Cf. "memento mori". vive ut vivas: live so that you may live: The phrase suggests that one should live life to the fullest and without fear of the possible consequences. vivere est cogitare: to live is to think: Authored by Cicero. Cf. "cogito ergo sum". vivere militare est: to live is to fight: Authored by Seneca the Younger in Epistle 96, 5.
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.
Nietzscheian alternative worldview to that represented through memento mori ("remember you must die"): Nietzsche believed amor fati was more affirmative of life. amor omnibus idem: love is the same for all: From Virgil, Georgics III amor patriae: love of the fatherland: i.e., "love of the nation;" patriotism: amor vincit omnia: love conquers all
Nietzscheian alternative worldview to that represented through memento mori ("remember you must die"): Nietzsche believed amor fati was more affirmative of life. amor omnibus idem: love is the same for all: From Virgil, Georgics III amor patriae: love of the fatherland: i.e., "love of the nation;" patriotism: amor vincit omnia: love conquers all
"Remember that you are mortal, so seize the day." Over time the phrase memento mori also came to be associated with penitence, as suggested in many vanitas paintings. Today many listeners will take the two phrases as representing almost opposite approaches, with carpe diem urging us to savour life and memento mori urging us
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 ...
navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse: to sail is necessary; to live is not necessary: Attributed by Plutarch to Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, who, during a severe storm, commanded sailors to bring food from Africa to Rome. Translated from Plutarch's Greek "πλεῖν ἀνάγκη, ζῆν οὐκ ἀνάγκη". ne plus ultra: nothing more ...