Experience Is The Teacher Of All

From Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Civili (Commentaries on the Civil War), a first-person account of the war against Pompey and his allies from 49–48 BC. Caesar composed the Commentarii both as a historical record and as political self-justification, addressed to a Roman senatorial audience. The work, written in spare, direct Latin, was recognized by ancient readers as both a military manual and a literary achievement — Cicero praised Caesar's style.