Ancient scholars Jerome and Tertullian referenced stories of how in ancient Rome after a general triumphed in an epic victory he would be paraded atop a gleaming chariot down the capital rsquo s central thoroughfares from dawn to sunset The crowd would roar The general would bask in the adoration reveling in the greatest honor of his life However legend has it that a servant stood behind the general the entire day whispering into his ear Memento Mori ldquo Remember you will die rdquo Amid all the adulation the general desperately needed the humility that came with remembering that he
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