Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite: and this rare conjunction, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. Chateaubriand.
Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection is never our lot. J. C. Weber.
Perfection is not the affair of the scholar; it is enough if he practises. Goethe.
Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim—Bear and endure; this sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. Ovid.
Perfer et obdura; multo graviora tulisti—Bear 10 and endure; you have borne much heavier misfortunes than these. Ovid.
Perfervidum ingenium Scotorum—The very ardent temper of the Scots.
Perfida, sed quamvis perfida, cara tamen—Faithless, but, though faithless, still dear. Tibull.
Pergis pugnantia secum / Frontibus adversis componere—You are attempting to reconcile things which are opposite in their natures. Hor.
"Perhaps" hinders folks from lying. Pr.
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to 15 denote the manners of the gentleman. Hazlitt.