The Six Mistakes of Man

My breakfast cereal had a fun facts flyer in it that fell out this morning while I was pouring it. The flyer was very literate. Here's a fun fact that it had.

Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, wrote some 2000 years ago:

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 acquiring the habit of reading and studying.
  
• Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
  

My, how we have progressed in 2000 years!

Thank you Hubbards Bugs 'n' Mud cereal.