Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius, also known as Huig de Grootor Hugo de Groot, was a Dutch jurist. Along with the earlier works of Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili, Grotius laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. A teenage intellectual prodigy, for his involvement in the intra-Calvinist disputes of the Dutch Republic, he was imprisoned and then escaped hidden appropriately in a chest of books. He wrote most of his major works in exile in France...
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth10 April 1583
Hugo Grotius quotes about
passion men cities
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
two four
Even God cannot make two times two not make four.
doing-nothing last-words labor
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.