Experience is the teacher of all things. — Julius Caesar

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Experience is the teacher of all things. — Julius Caesar · Smartyfair

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Julius Caesar100–44 BC · leader · Ancient RomeJulius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose military conquests and political power ultimately made him dictator of Rome.1 quote

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How sure this is: 55% sureLots of sources credit Julius Caesar with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
What turned up: Latin ancestor is genuine Caesar ('est rerum omnium magister usus', De Bello Civili II.8), but this English wording appears in no located translation — the standard McDevitte/Bohn (1859) reads 'experience is the best master in every thing on which the wit of man is employed'
Work: Commentarii de Bello Civili (Commentaries on the Civil War)
Occasion: c. 48 BCE · Roman military campaigns · war memoir/history
Sources checked: en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-sonnet-5, 21 August 2026Wikiquote Experience theme page, sourced to Commentarii de Bello Civili

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Checked using claude-fable-5, 21 August 2026

De Bello Civili II.8, McDevitte/Bohn trans. (1859), Wikisource — this rendering reads 'experience is the best master in every thing', NOT our stored wording; Latin 'est rerum omnium magister usus' is genuine Caesar. Stored form unlocated this pass — maybe another translator or a smoothing.

en.wikisource.orgChecked using claude-fable-5, 21 August 2026McDevitte/Bohn 1859 translation of De Bello Civili II.8 — carries the passage, NOT our stored wording

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