4 Maccabees 2:16

¹⁴It alloweth not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy, but preserveth it from the destroyers, and collecteth their fallen ruins.

¹⁵And reasoning appears to be master of the more violent passions, as love of empire and empty boasting, and arrogance, and loud boasting, and slander.

— 4 Maccabees 2:16 —

¹⁷Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan and Abiram, did nothing to them in wrath, but regulated his anger by reasoning.

¹⁸For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the passions, and to transfer some, and destroy others.