The Six Mistakes of Man

Wayne Dyer has inspired me a lot lately with his commentary in Wisdom of the Ages. I had to add this wisdom from 2000 years ago. It is amazing how we accuse others of being "old-fashioned" and yet, we still suffer from the same bad habits. Have a read...

The Six Mistakes of Man

~The illusion that personal gain is made up of the crushing of others.
~The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
~Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
~Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
~Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and study.
~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 its most articulate philosopher. The last years of republican Rome are othen referred to as the Age of Cicero.