Tree of misery

There are abhorrent qualities in man that civilization has not been able to refine. In fact, no one knows what was created with him, so civilization has been unable to correct them?! Or was man created free of it, then civilization acquired it for him through the confusing and confusing circumstances it imposed on him, and through the competing and successive engagements it tested him with, but it is compounded in him anyway, spoiling his affairs, forcing him to commit many acts of transgression, and implicating him in many sins? I do not know. I am more cruel than him if grace overpowers him, I am no more arrogant than him if vanity increases him, I am no more ignorant than him if selfishness dominates him, and I am no more negligent than him if he senses a near or distant danger to his own good. Taha Hussien