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I'm a fan of latin quotes, but I don't know many so please help me out
Here's one,

Sic vis pacem, para bellum (sik vis paw kem, para bellum)

"If you want peace, prepare for war"

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[+2] - Chai - 05/16/2005Semper ubi sub ubi - Always where under where they should be clean too in case you're in an accident.
[+2] - Kennytan - 12/26/2008i've got a question, does "knowledge is power, so sieze the day" equates to Scientia est potentia, vic Carpe Diem ? And isnt Pacem and Pacis the same thing, they are both interuseable...
[+2] - Francis - 09/17/2009The answers are on page one of this thread but anyway: - [i]sic vis pacem para bellum [/i]: If you want peace, prepare for war - [i]nemo provocare ne offendere audet quem intelliget superiorem...
[+1] - boomerang - 10/25/2004Omnia mea mecum porto - All that is mine, I carry with me. (Cicero) Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere - To accept a favour is to sell freedom. (Publilius Syrus)
[+1] - Lex62589 - 11/11/2004another latin quote Cogito Ergo Sum "I think, Therefore I am"
[+1] - tillmanj - 12/05/2004Re: Cool Latin Quotes [quote="Keef"]I'm a fan of latin quotes, but I don't know many so please help me out Here's one, [b]Sic vis pacem, para bellum [/b] (sik vis paw kem, para...
[+1] - SirTok - 02/19/2005Re: Cool Latin Quotes [quote="Keef"]I'm a fan of latin quotes, but I don't know many so please help me out Here's one, [b]Sic vis pacem, para bellum [/b] (sik vis paw kem, para...
[+1] - Reyn - 02/28/2005From the Red Green show: Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati "When all else fails, play dead." :lol: :lol: :lol:
[+1] - DaFlukes - 03/20/2005Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc -Addams Family Motto [We gladly feast on those who would subdue us]
[+1] - benjamino - 04/22/2005ex nihilio nihil fit - nothing comes from nothing ars gratia artis - art for art's sake

Omnia mea mecum porto - All that is mine, I carry with me. (Cicero)

Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere - To accept a favour is to sell freedom. (Publilius Syrus)

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another latin quote
Cogito Ergo Sum "I think, Therefore I am"

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Keef wrote:

I'm a fan of latin quotes, but I don't know many so please help me out
Here's one,

Sic vis pacem, para bellum (sik vis paw kem, para bellum)

"If you want peace, prepare for war"

Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
A maxim often paraphrased as "Si vis pacem, para bellum." The eminently reasonable philosophy that ,"If you would have peace, prepare for war." The English version is often back-rendered as "Si vis pacem, para bellum." This sentiment is attributed to Flavius Vegetius Renatus, who wrote in the "De re militari" (390 B.C.E.): "Qui desiderat pacem, bellum praeparat; nemo provocare ne offendere audet quem intelliget superiorem esse pugnaturem". (Whosoever desires peace prepares for war; no one provokes, nor dares to offend, those who they know know to be superior in battle.)

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Keef wrote:

I'm a fan of latin quotes, but I don't know many so please help me out
Here's one,

Sic vis pacem, para bellum (sik vis paw kem, para bellum)

"If you want peace, prepare for war"

The actual spelling for that latin quote is, "Sic Vis Pacis, Para Bellum"
I believe it is that because i tried checking up the spelling of that quote and that is what came up. I used a English-Latin Latin-English Translator.
If I'm wrong, I'm sorry to have wasted your time.

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From the Red Green show:

Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati

"When all else fails, play dead." Laughing

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Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc

-Addams Family Motto

[We gladly feast on those who would subdue us]

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ex nihilio nihil fit - nothing comes from nothing

ars gratia artis - art for art's sake

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"Ave Atque vale"

Hail and Farewell!

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Alea jacta est! (= The die is cast!)

- what Caesar said when he crossed the Rubicon.

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Nosce te ipsum - Know thyself.

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Semper ubi sub ubi - Always where under where

they should be clean too in case you're in an accident.

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Actually that quote should be

"Si velis pacem, para bellum"

It needs the subjunctive form of volo because it's a conditional clause.

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here are some phrases
oderint dum metuant- let them hate provided that they fear

dum spiro, spero - while I breathe, I hope

nascentes morimur - from the moment we are born, we die

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Couple of decent ones
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who are the guards that guard the guardians?

Ipsa scientia potestas est. - Knowledge itself is power.

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qui ascendit sine labore descendit sine honore
who goes up without working for it, comes down without honor

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quis est tua pater?
I think it is whose your daddy.

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Draco dormiens numquam titillandus.
(Motto of Hogwart's)

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two little things
Scientia est potentia - Knowledge is power
Egrota Egrota Egrota- Drop dead, drop dead, drop dead

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I have always liked amor vincit omnia - love conquers all. Chaucer used it very cleverly for his ever so slightly flirtatious nun - she should of course mean the love of God - but did she?

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