Dum vivimus vivamus
Dum vivimus vivamus is a Latin phrase that means "While we live, let us live."[1][2] It is often taken to be an epicurean declaration.[1]
This latin phrase was the motto of Philip Doddridge's coat of arms.[3]
Usage
It serves as the motto for Porcellian Club at Harvard. Emily Dickinson used the line in a whimsical valentine written to William Howland in 1852 and subsequently published in the Springfield Daily Republican:[4]
Sic transit gloria mundi
How doth the busy bee,
Dum vivimus vivamus,
I stay my enemy!
It was also the motto inscribed on the sword of "Oscar" Gordon, the protagonist of Robert Heinlein's 1963 book "Glory Road".
Notes
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- ↑ Orton, Job, Memoirs of the Life, Character and Writings of the Late Reverend Philip Doddridge, p. 145.
- ↑ Benson Sewall, Richard, The Life of Emily Dickinson, Volumes 1-2, p. 450.
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