Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. Schiller.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war his corruption, his disgrace. Thomson.

Peace is the masterpiece of reason. J. Müller.

Peace, justice, and the word of God must be given to the people, not sold. Ruskin.

Peace, of all worldly blessings, is the most 15 valuable. Smallridge.

Peace with a cudgel in hand is war. Port. Pr.

Peacefully and reasonably to contemplate is at no time hurtful, and while we use ourselves to think of the advantages of others, our own mind comes insensibly to imitate them; and every false activity to which our fancy was alluring us is then willingly abandoned. Goethe.

Peccare docentes / Fallax historias movet—He deceitfully relates stories that are merely lessons in vice. Hor.

Peccare licet nemini—No one has leave to sin. Cic.

Peccavi—I have sinned. To cry "peccavi" is to 20 acknowledge one's error.