4 Maccabees 2:17

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.

¹⁶For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant passions, as it does wrath: for it masters even this.

— 4 Maccabees 2:17 —

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

¹⁹For why, else, does our most wise father Jacob blame Simeon and Levi for having irrationally slain the whole race of the Shechemites, saying, Cursed be their anger.