Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies

by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

Evagrius set down a list of eight “thoughts” or “demons” that typically beset the desert hermit: “gluttony, then impurity [i.e., lust], avarice, sadness, anger, acedia [later called sloth], vainglory, and last of all, pride.”