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Dum vivimus vivamus is latin phrase that means "While we live, let us live".[1] It is often taken to be an epicurean declaration.

It serves as the motto for Porcellian Club at Harvard. Emily Dickinson once used it in a letter written to William Howland[2]:

Sic transit gloria mundi
How doth the busy bee,
Dum vivimus vivamus,
I stay my enemy!

References

  1. ^ dum vivimus, vivamus. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dum vivimus, vivamus (accessed: February 15, 2013). It is considered an epicurean declaration. Modern Language Association (MLA): Dictionary.com, "dum vivimus, vivamus," in Dictionary.com Unabridged. Source location: Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dum vivimus, vivamus. Available: http://dictionary.reference.com. Accessed: February 15, 2013.
  2. ^ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GYuUA9gn1hUC&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false The poems of Emily Dickinson
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