Cicero - The Six Mistakes of Man


	Cicero - The Six Mistakes of Man

ecopirate

6-28-2007 10:55 AM

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6-29-2007 5:03 AM

tidbit2

This really applies to the way the world is

6-29-2007 8:40 AM

thefoxalmighty

Very true.. Nice clip.. Thanks

6-29-2007 1:04 PM

Tylast

Brilliant!

7-11-2007 12:56 PM

sidegik

and also wo-man : ), great clip

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3b2610be-e00a-4b49-b3ac-91fb8a11df6b/6B17AE23-264E-4EB2-BCD1-FB31543E4B6E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://philramble.wordpress.com/2005/01/07/cicero-the-six-mistakes-of-man/" href="http://philramble.wordpress.com/2005/01/07/cicero-the-six-mistakes-of-man/" style="font-size: 11px;">philramble.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://philramble.wordpress.com/2005/01/07/cicero-the-six-mistakes-of-man/"><P> Marcus Cicero was a prominent philosopher who lived at the time the Romans began to lose their domainance as a civilization. He was a statesman, poet, orator and a philosopher all combined into one…I think he had a tendency to hit the nail on the head pretty often, and as a critic he excelled. Here are what he thought were “The six mistakes of Man”:Cicero’s <EM>Six Mistakes of Man.</EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://philramble.wordpress.com/2005/01/07/cicero-the-six-mistakes-of-man/"><OL>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The delusion that personal gain is made by crushing others.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and studying.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.</LI>
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