Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 2:19
Source: Septuagint
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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.
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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.
— 4 Maccabees 2:19 —
20For if reasoning did not possess the power of subduing angry affections, he would not have spoken thus.
21For at the time when God created man, He implanted within him his passions and moral nature.