4 Maccabees 1:24

24 Anger, as a man will see if he reflects on this experience, is an emotion embracing pleasure and pain.

4 Maccabees 1:24 In-Context

22 Thus desire precedes pleasure and delight follows it.

23 Fear precedes pain and sorrow comes after.

24 Anger, as a man will see if he reflects 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;