Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C. – 43 B.C) wrote this two millennia ago; I believe it is just as true today. The six mistakes of man are:
II. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
III. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
IV. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
V. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and study.
VI. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
Especially liked the third one!!! Very often do we give up and do not strive to accomplish more due to the laziness and unconvincing attitude to own strength!!!
ReplyDeleteIndeed. All of these ring very true to me. And the sheer brilliance of this short passage reaffirms my belief that we "enlightened" people vastly overestimate our wisdom and underestimate traditional wisdom.
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