Hugo Grotius Quotes

• Un hombre no puede gobernar una nación si no puede gobernar una ciudad; no puede gobernar una ciudad si no puede gobernar una familia; no puede gobernar una familia a menos que pueda gobernarse a sí mismo; y no puede gobernarse a sí mismo a menos que sus pasiones estén sujetas a la razón...".

  Hugo Grocio

  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 Grocio

  Guerra, Tomada, Hombres

  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 Grocio

  Libertad

  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 Grocio

  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 Grocio

  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 Grocio

  Christian, War, Fighting

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

  Hugo Grocio

  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 Grocio

  Ignorance, Certain, Subjects

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• I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

  Hugo Grocio

  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 Grocio

  Grief, Long, Relief

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