The Six Mistakes of Mortal Man
1. The illusion that personal gain is made up of crushing others.
2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
5. Neglecting development & refinement of the mind & not acquiring the habit of reading & study.
6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C. - 43 B.C.)
[Roman statesman and man of letters, Cicero was Rome’s greatest orator and it’s most articulate philosopher. The last years of republican Rome are often referred to as the Age of Cicero.]
No comments:
Post a Comment