THE SIX MISTAKES OF MAN

[taxlady]

Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, wrote the following some 2,000 years ago:
THE SIX MISTAKES OF MAN

1. The delusion that personal gain is made by 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 and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and studying.


6. Attempting to compel others to believe as we do.

Comments

[ellenk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have a problem with #2 sometimes.

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

That's a hard one.

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

And apparently these mistakes are still being made on a daily basis :-/

Just goes to show that while we've gots lots of new technology to play with we haven't really progressed on more basic levels for the past several thousand years. If not longer.

[rosy1.livejournal.com]

Number 1: I cannot believe how many people I come into contact with lately operate on this basis. I was always taught it was personal responsibility to lift others up.

Number 2: I am guilty of this, but I am getting better with age (I think it's lack of energy ;P

Number 3: I see nothing as impossible, although I believe strongly in divine assistance.

Number 4: ??

Number 5: If I start to do that, it's time to check out.


Number 6: oh well, maybe just a little...but I like to think of it as "sharing" !

Re: THE SIX MISTAKES OF MAN

[capj.livejournal.com]

Of course, #6 gets interpreted as committing the very sin of which it complains...
It seems that there must be some minimal commonality of belief; just enough so that everybody believes in not attempting to compel others to believe the same way.