4 Maccabees 1:8

⁶For reasoning does not rule over its own affections, but over such as are contrary to justice, and manliness, and temperance, and prudence; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them.

⁷I might prove to you, from many other considerations, that religious reasoning is sole master of the passions;

— 4 Maccabees 1:8 —

⁹For all these, contemning pains even unto death, by this contempt, demonstrated that reasoning has command over the passions.

¹⁰For their virtues, then, it is right that I should commend those men who died with their mother at this time in behalf of rectitude; and for their honors, I may count them happy.