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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 Grotius
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Hugo Grotius
Age: 62 †
Born: 1583
Born: April 10
Died: 1645
Died: August 28
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