The six mistakes of man

  • The delusion that personal gain is made by crushing 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 aquiring the habit of reading and studying.
  • Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero