And yet again there are six evil points whereby sloth brings man to his
end. The first is disobedience, when the man will not do what one tells
him in penance; or (when) one commands him something that seems to him
hard, he excuses himself that he cannot do it; or if he receives it, he
does it either little or naught. The second point is impatience; for as
he can bear nothing in the way of obedience, he cannot endure in the way
of patience, so that none dare speak to him of his good. The third is
murmuring, for when one speaks to him for his good, he is angry and
murmurs, and thinks that one despises him, and therefrom he falls into
sorrow, which is the fourth vice. And the same sorrow overcomes him so
much that all that one says to him, all that one does to him, all that
he hears, all that he sees, it all annoys him, and so he falls into
sorrow and into disinclination to live, so that he himself hastens and
desires his death; and this is the fifth vice. After all these sorrowful
points of sloth the devil gives him the deadly stroke, and brings him to
despair. Therefore, he compasses his death and slays himself, as
desperate and gives himself to all evils, and dreads not to do sin,
whatever it be. To such an end sloth leads the man. These are eighteen
points that the devil throws upon the slothful; it is no wonder though
he lose the game.