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an.2.3 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

3. Mortifying
“These two things, mendicants, are mortifying.
What two?
It’s when someone has done bad things and not done good things, by way of body, speech, and mind.
Thinking, ‘I’ve done bad things by way of body, speech, and mind’, they’re mortified. Thinking, ‘I haven’t done good things by way of body, speech, and mind’, they’re mortified.
These are the two things that are mortifying.”