4 Maccabees 1:27

²⁵And there exists in pleasure a malicious disposition, which is the most multiform of all the affections.

²⁶In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money, and vaingloriousness, and contention, and faithlessness, and the evil eye.

— 4 Maccabees 1:27 —

²⁸As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growths of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these passions.

²⁹And reasoning, the universal husbandman, purging, and pruning these severally, and binding round, and watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections.