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).
Etiamsi daremus non esse Deum, aut non curari ab eo negotia humana.
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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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