Anti-Climacus

HUGO GROTIUS, COLONIALIST:

From III.XV ('Moderation in Obtaining Empire'), §12:

In order to make a right use of victory, the saying of Tacitus ought always to be remembered, that "We cannot finish a war in a more happy and glorious manner than by pardoning the vanquished." Julius Caesar, in a letter he wrote when Dictator, says, "Let this be the new way of conquering, to secure ourselves with mercy and liberality."