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“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”
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Hugo Grotius
#Passion Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Cities Quotes
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“By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing.”
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Hugo Grotius
#Understanding Quotes
#Accomplished Quotes
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“Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.”
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Hugo Grotius
#Grief Quotes
#Long Quotes
#Relief Quotes
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“Even God cannot make two times two not make four.”
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Hugo Grotius
Source : "A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, Aside". Book by Delbert D. Thiessen, p. 18, 1998.
#Two Quotes
#Four Quotes
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“Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.”
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Hugo Grotius
Source : Hugo Grotius (1814). “The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations”, p.12
#Liberty Quotes
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“A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.”
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Hugo Grotius
Source : Hugo Grotius (1814). “The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations”, p.28
#Men Quotes
#Rights Quotes
#Perfect Quotes
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“I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.”
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Hugo Grotius
#Doing Nothing Quotes
#Last Words Quotes
#Labor Quotes
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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.”
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Hugo Grotius
#Christian Quotes
#War Quotes
#Fighting Quotes
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“Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.”
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Hugo Grotius
#Ignorance Quotes
#Certain Quotes
#Subjects Quotes
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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.”
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Hugo Grotius
Source : Hugo Grotius, Stephen C. Neff (2012). “Hugo Grotius on the Law of War and Peace: Student Edition”, p.8, Cambridge University Press
#War Quotes
#Taken Quotes
#Men Quotes
