4 Maccabees 1:25

25 In pleasure there exists even a malevolent tendency, which is the most complex of all the emotions.

4 Maccabees 1:25 In-Context

23 Fear precedes pain and sorrow comes after.
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 honor, rivalry, and malice;
27 in the body, indiscriminate eating, gluttony, and solitary gormandizing.
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