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any good french/latin quotes or phrases?

does anyone know any good latin or french sayings or quotes or phrases? okay can you be more specific like tell me if its LATIN or FRENCH and tell me what it stands for?

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1. verus amicus est tamquam alter idem. Home sapiens non urinat im ventum Homo homini lupus as for French. Here's one special: "Une vie ne vaut rien aussie que rien ne vaut une vie."
2. "L'habit ne fait pas le moine." Literal meaning-Clothes don't make a saint. This means, good looks does not necesserily make a good person.
3. "Nunc scio qui est amour" - Now I know what love is
4. venni vetti vecci "i came, i saw, i conquered"
5. "je me rends" french for"i surrender"
6. Um, I think the person meant to say/spell, Veni, Vidi, Vici. C'est la vie dans les banlieues. Such is life in the suburbs.
7. cogito ergo sum said by Descartes...i am thinking therefore i exist or more traditionally, i think, therefore i am.
8. I'lya longtemps quer j'tamiers, jamias je ne t'oublier. French I have loved you for a long time and I will never forget you. In Parbium Infidelium- Latin In the land of infidels
9. The French quote I prefer is "Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'être obligé d'en pleurer." (Beaumarchais) meaning "I try to laugh of everything before being obliged to cry for it". Another one "Je préfère fermer ma gueule et passer pour un con plutôt que de l'ouvrir et ne laisser aucun doute à ce sujet" meaning "I prefer to shut up and let people think I'm a fool rather than opening it and let not doubt on the subject". You can fin a lot a quotes in french, just type in google "citations" or "proverbes". In latin : "Alea jacta est" ("The dices are thrown")