video | Harry Potter and the Question about Mottos

[thebreakingwave]

Hullo again, I'd been talking to someone else about this and I was just wondering if anyone here has a family or personal motto that they like to live by. Or, I suppose, that they really don't agree with.

If so, do you like yours? Do you find that it's helpful?

If not, did you want one? What would you make it?

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[makedo]

[ a shrug. ] Semper fi.

[thebreakingwave]

[Harry knows enough Latin to understand.]

That's a good one, I feel. Did you choose it or is it a family thing?

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[wolfchild]

[ She sends it before she can think it over. ]

Winter is coming.

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[thebreakingwave]

I think I get it, but I'm not sure.

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[wolfchild]

It is a warning.

[thebreakingwave]

A good one, I suppose. I once had someone tell me that 'you can't step in the same river twice' and I think it's sort of similar?

[wolfchild]

I do not know.

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[cl_cl_claudius]

The gens Claudia has no motto, if I understand you right. But there is an old ballad which says that the Claudian tree bears two kinds of fruit, the sweet and the sour, and the sour outnumber the sweet. I suppose they are not so much words for the Claudii to live by as a warning to any who have much to do with us, though I have of course had a great deal of trouble with my own family and can attest to the accuracy of the saying.

I have never thought of adopting a saying by which to live. It is an interesting question. But my life has been so crowded with prophecies that I would not know how to fit a phrase meant just for myself in amongst them all.

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[ryuuzaki]

[The message comes through from "Ryuuzaki" -- who seems to be a youngish man with a low voice. His accent hints that he might have lived on the south coast of England at some point.]

I don't have a particular motto. It's different from a personal code.

Do you have one?

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[inebriety]

'In the jungle, there are no friends. Only predators.'

If there's one thing I learned from my father, it's that.

[thebreakingwave]

Me neither.

Thank you for answering though, I really do appreciate it.

[thebreakingwave]

I know the saying that 'God gave us relatives and I thank God for letting us choose our friends'. Which isn't identical, but it sounds like it might apply here.

Prophecies are always the worst. Too vague to know what they mean until after they happen.

[thebreakingwave]

How much of life is the jungle?

[voice]

[thebreakingwave]

No, I don't, but I've thought about it. May I ask what's your personal code?

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[bottlearum]

Take what you can; Give nothing back.

[ Oh hi, guess what, he's a pirate. ]

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[carbonite]

"Pay me or you're gonna get shot" seems to be a good motto to live by.

[thebreakingwave]

[It's not a motto that he feels comfortable living by, but it's not his to worry about.]

And it's worked well for you?

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[thebreakingwave]

Certainly not something I'd want to say or hear. Can you have a motto that's best used by avoiding?

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[carbonite]

There's always Shoot First.

[makedo]

It's a marine thing.

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[thebreakingwave]

[There's a short, wry bark of laughter.]

There have been days when I wished I had that motto. I'd probably have it if I was brighter.

[thebreakingwave]

[It takes him a moment to remember that he's not talking about the sea but about the American military.]

May I ask an incredibly dim-witted question?

[makedo]

What if I say no?

[ but he's mostly kidding. ]

[thebreakingwave]

I'll bear the deprivation.

[makedo]

Go ahead.