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

- Hugo Grotius

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

- Hugo Grotius

Even God cannot make two times two not make four.

- Hugo Grotius

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

By undertaking many things, I have accomplished nothing.

- Hugo Grotius

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 ca…

- Hugo Grotius

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

- Hugo Grotius

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

- Hugo Grotius

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…

- Hugo Grotius