Seven deadly sins soul," proper response to anger, friendliness, and wit or charm. Roman writers like Horace extolled the value of virtue while listing and warning against vices. His first epistles says that "to flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom." The modern concept of the seven deadly sins is linked to the works of the fourth-century monk Evagrius Ponticus, who listed eight "evil thoughts" in Greek as follows: They were translated into the Latin of Western Christianity (largely due to the writings of John Cassian), thus becoming part of the
Sins, Aargau 415 or 12.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 4 individuals (or about 0.12% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic faith. In Sins about 72.6% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a "Fachhochschule"). Of the school age population (), there are 359 students attending primary school, there are 287 students attending secondary school, there are 220 students attending tertiary or university level schooling in the municipality. Sins is home to the "Gemeindebibliothek Sins" (municipal library