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Family Mottos

Family Mottos quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur   English Pureblood BLACK: Toujours Pur (French, "Always pure") CROUCH: Ad maioram bonam (Latin, "To the greater good”) GREENGRASS: Fais qui doit, arrive qui pourra (French, "Do your duty, happen what may") LESTRANGE: Blōdcræft (Old English, "Strength in blood") LONGBOTTOM: Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Latin, "Who watches the watchmen?") MALFOY: Nil satis nisi optimum (Latin, "Nothing but the best is good enough") MULCIBER: Nihil aliud scit necessitas quam vincere (Latin, "Necesssity knows nothing else but victory") POTTER: Fortes fortuna adiuvat (Latin, "Fortune favours the brave") SMITH: Ad astra per aspera (Latin, "To the stars through hard work") WILKES: Veritas vos liberabit (Latin, "The truth shall make you free") Russian Pureblood DOLOHOV: Сила перед милосердием, смерть перед позором. (Russian, "Strength before mercy, death before dishonour") French Pureblood BOUCHEZ: Tout est pur au pur (French, "Everything is pure to the pure") Other ABERCROMBIE: A lamh a' bheir 's i gheibh (Gaelic, "The hand that gives is the hand that gets") PETTIGREW: Primum viveri deinde philosophari (Latin, "Live before you Philosophise") Please comment to have your family motto added!