| Pacem in Terris.
Peace on Earth.
Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
Mountains are in labor to deliver a ridiculous mouse.
i.e. much ado about nothing. (Horace, Ars Poetica).
Pax melior est quam iustissimum bellum.
Peace is better than the most just war. Pax tecum.
Peace (be) with you. Pax vobiscum.
Peace (be) with you all. Pecunia non olet.
Money doesn't smell.
(According to Suetonius, Emperor Vespasian was challenged by his son Titus
for taxing the public lavatories. The emperor held up a coin before his son
and asked whether it smelled.) Per ardua ad astra.
Through hardship to the stars.
Per aspera ad astra.
Aspire for the stars.
Per fas et nefas.
With right and wrong. By any means necessary .
Periculum in mora.
Danger in delay. Per se.
By itself, without referring to anything else; intrinsically, in and of itself. Persona non grata.
A person not wanted, an unwelcomed person. Piscem natare doces.
Teaches a fish to swim.
Piscis primum a capite foetet.
Fish stinks from the head first.
Plenus venter non studet libenter.
Full belly doesn't like to study.
Plures crapula quam gladius perdidit.
Drunkenness takes more lives than the sword.
Plus ultra.
Further beyond.
Nec plus ultra
No further beyond (referring to the Finisterre as the limit of exploration).
Post cenam non stare sed mille passus meare.
Do not rest after dinner, but walk a mile. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
After this, therefore because of this. A logical fallacy of false cause and effect. A classic example is that a bee, which you do not see, stings a balloon. You sneeze and right afterwards the balloon bursts. You think that because the balloon burst immediately after this (the sneeze), the balloon must have burst because of this (you sneezing).
Post hoc non est propter hoc.
After this is not because of this. Pro bono publico.
For the public good, often shortened to just “pro bono.”
Refers to a lawyer taking on a case free of charge.
Post Tenebras Lux.
After the darkness the light.
Potius sero quam numquam.
Better late then never. (Livy)
Praemonitus, praemunitus.
Forewarned (is) forearmed.
Praevenire melius est quam praeveniri.
It is better to precede than to be preceded.
Primum ego, tum ego, deinde ego.
First I, then I, thereafter I.
Primum non nocere.
First, do no harm. (attributed to the Hippocratic Oath).
Principiis obsta.
Resist the beginnings (i.e. undesirable trends should be nipped in the bud).
Pro aris et focis.
For altar and hearth.
Pro Deo et Patria.
For God and Country.
Proximus sum egomet mihi.
I am closest to myself. (Terence)
Pulvis et umbra sumus.
We are dust and shadow. (Horace)
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