Memento Mori — What Stoics Actually Meant by “Remember Death”
You’ve probably seen the phrase memento mori—Latin for “remember you must die”—stamped on coins, tattooed on forearms, printed on coffee mugs. It’s everywhere now. And almost everywhere it appears, it’s wrong. The phrase has been gothicized into something it never was: a brooding doom-aesthetic, all skulls and black candles, designed to make you feel intense … Read More