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A relatively common recent Latinization from the joke phrasebook Latin for All Occasions. Grammatically correct, but the phrase would be anachronistic in ancient Rome. 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 ...
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.
A curious translation of the pun on "vivat rex", found in Westerham parish church in Kent, England. vive memor leti: live remembering death: Authored by Persius. 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 ...
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
"From harmful deceit"; dolus malus is the Latin legal term denoting "fraud". The full legal phrase is ex dolo malo non oritur actio ("an action does not arise from fraud"). When an action has its origin in fraud or deceit, it cannot be supported; thus, a court of law will not assist a man who bases his course of action on an immoral or illegal act.
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.
The article still slaughters the meaning of "memento mori." It contains the phrase, for example, "The concept, in the art of classical antiquity, was more frequently embodied in the phrase carpe diem, or 'seize the day.' " Then it goes on to describe phrases similar to carpe diem, but not to memento mori. Truly, they are not similar terms; the ...