13 Quotes by Hugo Grotius

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom

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

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

Even God cannot make two times two not make four.

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

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.

By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing.

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