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Memento mori   /mɪmˈɛntoʊ mˈɔri/   Listen
Memento mori

noun
1.
A reminder (as a death's head) of your mortality.





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"Memento mori" Quotes from Famous Books



... or even to serve you." Upon this they disclosed to me their painful dilemma; namely, that they had invited twelve persons to table, and that just at that moment a relation had returned from a journey, who now, as the thirteenth, would be a fatal /memento mori/, if not for himself, yet certainly for some of the guests. "The case is very easily mended," replied I: "permit me to take my leave, and stipulate for indemnification." As they were persons of consequence and good breeding, they would by no means allow this, ...
— Autobiography • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Words linked to "Memento mori" :   reminder


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