Thursday, October 25, 2007

The Six Mistakes of Man

According to Marcus Cicero, a prominent philosopher who lived at the time the Romans began to lose their domainance as a civilization has this to share.

Here are what he thought were “The six mistakes of Man

  1. The delusion that personal gain is made by crushing others. - it perhaps gives us a feeling of insecurity and destroys the very foundation of our thought.
  2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected. - Don’t worry about the things you can fix, and don’t worry about the things you can’t fix. Worrying is a losing strategy…
  3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
  4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
  5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and studying.
  6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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