Editing Hugo Grotius (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Hug. Grotii Bataui Syntagma Arateorum 981373 00009.jpg|thumb|upright|''Syntagma Arateorum'']]

Grotius' personal motto was ''Ruit hora'' ("Time is running away"); his last words were purportedly, "By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing" (''Door veel te begrijpen, heb ik niets bereikt'').{{sfn|Miller|2014|ps=. While they are probably apocryphal, his supposed last words—“By attempting many things, I have accomplished nothing”—do evoke the span of his life's work and his personal assessment of the results.}} Significant friends and acquaintances of his included the theologian [[Franciscus Junius (the elder)|Franciscus Junius]], the poet [[Daniel Heinsius]], the philologist [[Gerhard Johann Vossius]], the historian [[Johannes Meursius]], the engineer [[Simon Stevin]], the historian [[Jacques Auguste de Thou]], the Orientalist and Arabic scholar [[Thomas van Erpe|Erpinius]], and the French ambassador in the Dutch Republic, [[Benjamin Aubery du Maurier]], who allowed him to use the French diplomatic mail in the first years of his exile. He was also friends with the [[Duchy of Brabant|Brabantian]] [[Jesuit]] [[Andreas Schottus]].{{sfn|H.M.|1988|loc=note 67}}

Grotius was the father of regent and diplomat [[Pieter de Groot]].