Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 6:34
Source: Septuagint
Original
34And it is but fair that we should allow, that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries.
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32For had the passions been superior to reasoning, I would have given them the witness of this mastery.
33But now, since reasoning conquered the passions, we befittingly award it the authority of first place.
— 4 Maccabees 6:34 —
35Ridiculous would it be were it not so; and I prove that reasoning has not only mastered pains, but that it is also superior to the pleasures, and withstands them.