Vices are character traits. Sins are specific acts of commission or omission. Once Judaism and Christianity adopted the concepts o...f vice and virtue from the Greek and Roman moralists, vices were often called sins and sins vices. The seven deadly "sins" are also called the deadly "vices," which is more accurate. They are basic, perhaps universal human tendencies, from which sins result. The vice of anger spawns the sin of violence against others and the vice of greed gives birth to the sin of theft.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The proud person rationalizes his faults, since to acknowledge them would threaten his sense of superiority. The humble person, on... the other hand, readily admits guilt and patiently listens to the reproofs and anger even of his enemies. Our enemies do not seek to protect our self-image with falsehoods and often monitor our behavior more accurately than does many a friend. Therefore, our enemies' admonishments are often of greater value to us in exposing our faults than are the kind and soothing words of a friend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have defined envy as a feeling of pain that a person experiences when he sees someone else possesses something which he does no...t. Jealousy arises when a person possesses something of great value and significance to himself and fears that someone else will deprive him of it. Threats to self-esteem are usually involved in both envy and jealousy, but the situations that provoke them are different and the jealous person will probably be more ready to take overt action to protect what he believes is rightfully his. Overt crimes of passion motivated by jealousy are frequent, whereas crimes of envy tend to be secretive. In general it is shameful to be envious but more acceptable to be jealous in protecting what one rightfully possesses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »