Istnieją cztery middothy w deoth (temperamentach): łatwo się złościć i łatwo uspokoić —jego zysk jest zanegowany przez jego stratę; zły z trudności i uspokojony z trudem—jego strata jest zanegowana przez jego zysk. [Jeśli ktoś szybko się gniewa na wszystko, nawet jeśli łatwo go uspokoić, jego strata jest czymś więcej niż jego zyskiem. Większość jego czynów jest wadliwa, ponieważ łatwo go gniewa na wszystko. Ale jeśli ktoś jest rozgniewany z powodu trudności, nawet jeśli ma zły środek uspokojenia trudnościami, jego (stosunkowo) mała strata, bycie uspokojonym z trudem, jest negowana przez jego (stosunkowo) większy zysk, złość z powodu trudności, tak że większość jego czynów jest godna pochwały. Niektóre wersje są przeciwieństwem tego; ale to wydaje się być poprawną wersją.]; rozgniewany z trudem i łatwo uspokojony—chasyd; łatwo się złościć i uspokajać z trudem— zły.
Bartenura
This is the textual variant that we [follow]: [a person who is] easy to anger and easy to appease -- his gain is canceled by his loss. [A person who is] hard to anger but [also] hard to appease -- his loss is canceled by his gain: A man who get angry quickly about everything - even though he goes back and is quickly appeased - his loss is greater than his reward; as most of his deeds are spoiled, since he is easy to anger about each and every thing. But [if he is] hard to anger - even though he has a bad trait [in] that he is hard to appease - his great reward [in] that he is hard to anger cancels out his small loss [in] that he is hard to appease, and most of his deeds are refined. And some [follow] the variant [that has] the opposite, and [the first] variant seems more like the main [one].
Observe how he called the patient one, whose patience is excessive to the point that he approaches lack of feeling concerning the matter of anger, a pious man. And he called someone with the vices of the trait of anger, evil.
HARD TO ANGER AND EASY TO APPEASE—THIS IS A PIOUS PERSON. But there is nobody with such a temperament that he never angers. For who was greater in humility than Moses, of whom the verse says “Moses became angry with the commanders of the army” (Numbers 31:14)—Midrash Shmuel. Greater than this is the verse “listen here, you rebels!” (Numbers 20:10), but it does not say explicitly that he was angry.