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词条 Dum vivimus vivamus
释义

  1. Usage

  2. References

{{refimprove|date=May 2013}}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.[4]

Usage

It serves as the motto for the 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:[5]

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"Sic transit gloria mundi,"

"How doth the busy bee,"

"Dum vivimus vivamus,"

I stay mine enemy! [...]


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It was also the motto inscribed on the sword of "Oscar" Gordon, the protagonist of Robert Heinlein's 1963 book Glory Road.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}} And it is the motto of the Knights of Momus, a New Orleans Carnival organization.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}

References

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3 : Latin philosophical phrases|Philosophy of life|Epicureanism

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