HabitAttested · Stoicism and Epicureanism
Memento mori: remember that you will die
Remember that you will die, to make this day denser.
Stoics and Epicureans urged keeping death in view, not to dread it but to make the present denser. Recalling that time is limited sorts the essential from the trivial and disarms the fear of missing out. Today it is a remedy against procrastination and the endless postponement of what matters.
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- Temporal orientation · Living in the present
- Death · Freeing ourselves from the fear
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- Taming the fear — The sages proposed exercises for living without being haunted by it, dwelling on it daily or not at all: can philosophy truly cure us of this fear, or does it cling to us too hard to yield?