None of them are deadly tough, and it could be argued that not all of them are sins.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Pride is strictly self though, and not typically seen as self-lusting... because that's just lust. :/

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah.... they aren't THAT deadly. Greed, I can see where that could be deadly.... but Lust? guys are wired to want sex, so why is that a sin? People are made to reproduce and the WANTING of the act is Lust. So.... doesn't make much sense. Everyone breaks these sins at least a hundred times in their life.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Lust isn't bad when moderated and aimed at the right people. It's bad when people consummate their lust with the wrong people, such as using someone for sex when they want more than that from you. Or, having sex with someone else when you're in a relationship. Or even more minor things such as watching someone when they don't know about it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

GEEZ!!! I didn't say lust was a sin!!! I said most sins STEM from one of those three "things" (again, no mention of the word "sin"). OKAY, PEOPLE???

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In "Purgatorio" Dante has all 7 deadly sins stem from Love. Pride, wrath, and envy are forms of "misdirected love." Sloth is "deficient love" and lust, gluttony, and greed are forms of "excessive love."

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(Running under the assumption that you've read the "books") What publisher did you happen to get this from? I bought "Inferno" from Penguin Press and the translators notes make it almost impossible to read.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Unfortunately, my copy of "Inferno" is with a friend, but the books from Barnes and Noble Classics (my copy of "Purgatorio") had understandable notes (which were great since I had no idea what Dante was talking about most of the time). I was planning to finish "Paradiso" this summer, but I was given the most tedious books for summer reading. I do highly recommend "Purgatorio" because it is really interesting... it just can get pretty dry at some points.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It wasn't so much that the translators notes weren't understandable, it was that there was like 14 pages of notes per one page of poem. And all the notes were REALLY obvious. I had to stop reading it was just so aggravating. I don't know if we have a Barns and Noble around here... I'll have to look out for the other two.

by Anonymous 12 years ago