4 Maccabees 1:24-26

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁴ Anger, as a person will see by reflecting on this experience, is an emotion embracing pleasure and pain. ²⁵ In pleasure there exists even a malevolent tendency, which is the most complex of all the emotions. ²⁶ In the soul it is boastfulness, covetousness, thirst for honour, rivalry, and malice;