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"Not every kind or degree of wrong is sufficient justification for war. The degree of the punishment must be in proportion to the degree of the fault."

— Vitoria, Francisco de event 1532

From De Indis (On the Indians)

Context: On the strict conditions required for a just war. De Indis / Relectio de Iure Belli (1532–1539). Vitoria established that aggression alone, not religious difference, determines the justice of war.

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