Peu et bien—Little but good. Fr. 25
Peuples libres, souvenez-vous de cette maxime: on peut acquérir la liberté, mais on ne la retrouve jamais—Free people, remember this rule: you may acquire liberty, but never regain it if you once lose it. Rousseau.
Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire. Carlyle.
[Greek: phantasmata theia, kai skiai tôn ontôn]—Divine phantasms and shadows of things that are. Gr.
Pharmaca das ægroto, aurum tibi porrigit æger, / Tu morbum curas illius, ille tuum—You give medicine to a sick man, he hands you your fee; you cure his complaint, he cures yours. To a doctor.
[Greek: pheideo tôn kteanôn]—Husband your resources. Gr. 30
[Greek: phêmê ge mentoi dêmothrous mega sthenei]—The voice of the people truly is great in power. Æschylus.
Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home. Lamb.
"Philistine" must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light. Heine.
Philologists, who chase / A panting syllable through time and space, / Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark / To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark. Cowper.