4 Maccabees 5:21

¹⁹Think not eating the unclean, then, a trifling offense.

²⁰For transgression of the law, whether in small or great matters, is of equal moment;

— 4 Maccabees 5:21 —

²²But thou deridest our philosophy, as though we lived irrationally in it.

²³Yet it instructs us in temperance, so that we are superior to all pleasures and lusts; and it exercises us in manliness, so that we cheerfully undergo every grievance.