"Experience is the teacher of all things"
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The intent is quietly authoritarian in the best Roman sense of the term: reality adjudicates. Caesar isn’t asking for patience with trial-and-error so much as insisting that legitimacy comes from demonstrated outcomes. The subtext flatters the practitioner and sidelines the armchair critic. It’s also self-justifying. Caesar’s career was an extended argument that he deserved power because he had earned competence in the only arena that mattered: action. If you’ve marched with an army, governed provinces, survived factional knife-fights, you don’t just have opinions; you have proof.
Context matters because Roman public life ran on performance under pressure. Leadership wasn’t a résumé bullet point; it was a spectacle of capability. The phrase functions like a compressed military briefing: learn fast, adapt, and let consequences do the grading. It’s persuasive because it sounds humble (let experience teach) while actually staking a claim to authority (I have more experience than you). In an age where catastrophe was a curriculum, Caesar’s line is less motivational poster than operating system.
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