Just as night follows day and winter summer, so distress and pain follow self-esteem and sensual pleasure, either in this life or after death. (Maximos the Confessor)

I wonder if Maximos was aware of his debt to Plato.

Hubris and Hedone - self-esteem and sensual pleasure - were also Plato's antagonists. In The Laws, Plato has Socrates tell us, "Human nature will be always drawing him into avarice and selfishness, avoiding pain and pursuing pleasure without any reason, and will bring these to the front, obscuring the juster and better; and so working darkness in his soul will at last fill with evils both him and the whole city."

Paul, being a child of Hellenism, shares much of this worldview. But I do not find it nearly so pronounced in the gospels. We can put it there, but it does quite fit.