Pride -- the inordinate seeking of one’s excellence
Vainglory – an inordinate seeking for praise and honor, for renown and the respect of other
people; the inordinate desire for demonstrating one’s own excellence
Presumption – leads a man to undertake great works of virtue that he does not have the
ability to perform (due to overconfidence in one’s own powers)
Ambition – an inordinate desire for honor, office, or position
Boasting –
Hypocrisy – Trying to make others think that you are better than you really are
Argumentativeness – Contention - Arguing without regard to truth
Disobedience – Not following the commands of a superior when suitable
Love of novelty – Trying to get others to think that you are modern, trendy or novel
Quarreling –
Stubborness – Obstinacy - The excessive attachment to one's own opinion, to where one
is unwilling to submit to the opinion of others when it is clearly more reasonable
Discord – Not wishing to give up one's own will when it is suitable
Envy – sadness over another’s good which is regarded as an obstacle to personal advantage
Detraction – backbiting – unjust blackening of another’s fame through secret words
Calumny - Slander - Saying something false about someone behind their back or saying
something false in someone's face to hurt them
Talebearing – whispering - unfavorable speech made in secret to another person for
the purpose of destroying of the noblest relationships necessary to human
life, a virtuous friendship
Contumely – unjust dishonoring of a person who is present
Joy at another’s misfortune and sadness at his success
Hatred - Despising another
Anger – an inordinate desire for revenge
Sullenness - Angrily healing wounds
Choler - Being too quick to anger
Sternness - An angry determination to be avenged
Tumor of the Mind - Constantly thinking about getting even with others
Clamor - Yelling at people
Strife - Fighting, physically, with another
Irreverence - Anger towards sacred things
Impiety - Anger to superiors
Quarreling –
Boldness –
Pugnacity –
Cursing – dishonoring by which one begs evil as evil for another person
Indignation – Never considering anyone worthy of anything, except oneself
Blasphemy – Profanity to God
Sloth [acedia] – an inordinate aversion for spiritual goods because of the effort required for them
Despair – withdraws men from what oppresses by flight from the goal
Timidity – withdraws men from what oppresses by flight from the means which are
the commandments
Faintheartedness - Pusillanimity – tendency to estimate that one’s powers are
insufficient to attempt difficult works of virtue while in reality they are equal to
the task
Apathy - affected ignorance – withdraws men from what oppresses by flight from the
means which are the commandments
Spite - Bitterness – withdraws men from what oppresses by resistance to men
Malice – withdraws men from what oppresses by resistance to spiritual goods
Curiosity about dangerous things – plunges men into evil distractions
Loquaciousness - Talking excessively – plunges men into evil distractions
Inconstancy - Instability in maintaining something good and virtuous – plunges men
into evil distractions
Restlessness – plunges men into evil distractions
Uneasiness of mind - plunges men into evil distractions
Greed - The excessive desire to possess something
Prodigality - Wasting all of one's money
Avarice – an inordinate seeking for riches
Treachery - Betraying another
Restlessness - Dissatisfaction with what one has
Carnal Prudence - Overestimating the importance of earthly things
Lying - Deceiving another through words
Hardheartedness - Being insensible to mercy
Anxiety for worldly things –
Injustice –
Deceit –
Fraud - Trickery through deeds
Perjury - Lying under oath
Gluttony – an inordinate seeking of food and drink
Sumptuousness - Only wanting expensive or costly food
Overconsumption - Eating too much
Voraciousness - Eating without manner or care
Hastiness - Eating too quickly
Daintiness - Only wanting food prepared a certain way
Drunkenness - Willful intoxication from alcohol
Blindness of the Mind - Distracting oneself from thinking about spiritual things
Scurrility - Acting in a way that is improper
Indecorous Joy - When all one's passions are directed to sorrow or joy
Mental dullness –
Talkativeness –
Coarseness –
Vulgarity –
Impurity –
Buffoonery –
Lust – an inordinate seeking of sexual pleasure
Folly - Not being able to judge spiritual things correctly
Effeminacy - Not letting go of what is pleasurable to pursue the difficult
Vanity - The excessive love of one's own appearance
Mental blindness –
Inconsideration – Thoughtlessness – rashness with regard to judgment - Not judging an
action correctly because of what the just judgement requires one to do
Inconstancy [mollities – softness of soul] – a rejection of the prudent judgment that has
been made
Precipitation – sin of indeliberation – acting only on impulse of emotion
Love of self – Egoism - The excessive love of self; a love of praise
Hatred of God –
Worldliness –
Horror of eternity –
