4 Maccabees 1:24-26

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²⁴ Anger, as a person will see by reflecting on this experience, is a passion embracing pleasure and pain.^{(A) 25} In pleasure there exists even a malevolent tendency, which is the most complex of all the passions. ²⁶ In the soul it is boastfulness, love of money, thirst for honor, rivalry, and malice;