Frauds – Pious and Impious – and Common Sinners, Too

     Our hearts are but a dense, polluted pond and hold within all possibilities of Evil and just a little Good.
     Thus, Frauds and Sinners do not come purely made, so that the names we give them derive from traits we see most often and most clearly.
 
     A tattle-tale and backbiter – that is, the Pious Fraud – is upholding virtue at painful cost to others and rewardment to himself. One reward will be most surely a happy triumph of self-righteous Gloating.

     Our Hypocrites, however, are with us in two species, and not mere one. And that other holds himself to be a Go-Getter and Sterling Fellow. A fluent Liar, his manner is Blunt Honesty, but not his purpose.
     Those trustable, and also trusting, are his chosen prey. “Caveat Emptor, you damn Fool!” Is profit by Impious Fraud not glorious?

     Like two species of Hyena are these two – one Spotted, and one Striped.

     We others are the Ordinary Sinners – we have some Bad in us, and also just a little bit of Good. We believe in Goodness, but do it only on occasion and so, repent of faults, but not too much. “For there is no point in wearing myself out.”
 
     Of Saints I cannot tell, as I have known but one. They are our most elusive species, because they try to keep unseen.

Comment:
    Do you have some favorite "hypocrites" ?