4 Maccabees 1:30
Source: Septuagint
30For reasoning is the leader of the virtues, but it is the sole ruler of the passions. Observe then first, through the very things which stand in the way of temperance, that reasoning is absolute ruler of the passions.
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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.
— 4 Maccabees 1:30 —
31Now temperance consists of a command over the lusts.
32But of the lusts, some belong to the soul, others to the body: and over each of these classes the reasoning appears to bear sway.