Aurelius - Meditations 2:10

2:10 – Like a true philosopher Theophrastus says, when comparing, as men commonly do compare, various faults, that errors committed through desire are graver than errors committed through anger. For clearly one who loses his temper is turning away from reason with a kind of pain and inward spasm, whereas he who offends through desire is the victim of pleasure and is clearly more vicious in a way and more effeminate in his wrongdoing. Rightly then and in a truly philosophic spirit Theophrastus said that an offense attended with pleasure is more deserving of condemnation than one attended with pain. And, generally, the latter resembles more a man who was originally wronged and so forced by pain to lose his temper; the other has begun it himself and has been impelled to do wrong, carried away by appetite to do what he does.
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Stoic texts:
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Letters from a Stoic Master (Seneca)
The Discourses of Epictetus
The Enchiridion (Handbook) of Epictetus
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