The sea is free: it belongs to no one, and to all.

Mare liberum est: nullius enim mare est, et omnium mare est.

Hugo Grotius

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Hugo Grotius

Dutch jurist (1583-1645), father of international law. His De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625) grounded the law of war and peace in natural law. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1619, he escaped in a book chest.

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Source: Mare Liberum (1609), 第5章Verified

Hugo Grotius's Other Quotes

Even if we were to grant that there is no God, or that He has no concern for human affairs (the natural law would still hold).

War must not be undertaken except for a just cause.

I sought much, and wasted my time on nothing.

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War must not be undertaken except for a just cause.

-- Hugo Grotius