Hugo Grotius Quotes

• A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

  Hugo Grotius

  Family, Leadership, Passion

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• Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

  Hugo Grotius

  War, Taken, Men

  Hugo Grotius, Stephen C. Neff (2012). “Hugo Grotius on the Law of War and Peace: Student Edition”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

  Hugo Grotius

  Liberty

  Hugo Grotius (1814). “The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations”, p.12

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• A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

  Hugo Grotius

  Men, Rights, Perfect

  Hugo Grotius (1814). “The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations”, p.28

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• By undertaking many things, I have accomplished nothing.

  Hugo Grotius

  Understanding, Accomplished

  "Hugo Grotius on the Law of War and Peace: Student Edition".

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• I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human.

  Hugo Grotius

  Christian, War, Fighting

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• Even God cannot make two times two not make four.

  Hugo Grotius

  Two, Four

  "A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, Aside". Book by Delbert D. Thiessen, p. 18, 1998.

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• Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

  Hugo Grotius

  Ignorance, Certain, Subjects

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• I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

  Hugo Grotius

  Doing Nothing, Last Words, Labor

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• Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief;
  To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

  Hugo Grotius

  Grief, Long, Relief

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