"Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory."
"Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces."
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Source: The Civil War. Book by Julius Caesar translated by Jane P. Gardner (Book III, Chapter 68), 47 BC.
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