Belgians Quote by Julius Caesar

All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called…

— Julius Caesar

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres. Gaul as a whole is divided into three parts.

— Irving Caesar

I've never been a classic Gaulist! Not a Gaulist at all.

— Helmut Schmidt

“Such, under the reign of the Antonines, were the six provinces of Gaul; the Narbonnese, Aquitaine, the Celtic, or Lyonnese, the Belgic, and the…

— Edward Gibbon

“Julius Caesar's victories in Gaul were in significant part a result of the disunity of the Celts there, and of his ability to divide…

— Thomas Sowell

Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and…

— Ammianus Marcellinus

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

— John Lothrop Motley

“that there was no doubt that the Helvetii were the most powerful of the whole of Gaul;”

— Julius Caesar

The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were justly condemned…

— Edward Gibbon

The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.

— John Lothrop Motley

“Spain, the western extremity of the empire, of Europe, and of the ancient world, has, in every age, invariably preserved the same natural limits;…

— Edward Gibbon

“Even the name, Celt, is not from their own Indo-European language but from Greek. Keltoi, the name given to them by Greek historians, among…

— Mark Kurlansky