People who do not know how to laugh are always 15 pompous and self-conceited. Thackeray.
People who have little to do are great talkers. The less they think the more they talk, and so women talk more than men. A nation where women determine the fashion is always talkative. Montesquieu.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. Holmes.
People who live in glass houses should never throw stones. Pr.
People who never have any time are those who do least. Lichtenberg. (?)
People will not look forward to posterity who 20 never look backward to their ancestors. Burke.
People would do well if, tarrying here for years together, they observed a while a Pythagorean silence. Goethe.
People would do well if they would keep piety, which is so essential and lovable in life, distinct from art, where, owing to its very simplicity and dignity, it checks their energy, allowing only the very highest mind freedom to unite with, if not actually to master, it. Goethe.
Per accidens—By accident, i.e., not following from the nature of the thing, but from some accidental circumstance.
Per acuta belli—Through the perils of war. M.