It is practice and experience that hold supremacy in the crafts, and there is no branch of learning in which one is not taught by his own mistakes.See Emanuele Lelli, "Errando Discitur," Classical Quarterly 58.1 (May, 2008) 348.
usus et experientia dominantur in artibus, neque est ulla disciplina, in qua non peccando discatur.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Monday, November 17, 2025
Learning from Mistakes
Columella, On Agriculture 1.praef.16 (tr. Harrison Boyd Ash):