4 Maccabees 13:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵ How then can one fail to confess the sovereignty of right reason over emotion in those who were not turned back by fiery agonies? ⁶ For just as towers jutting out over harbours hold back the threatening waves and make it calm for those who sail into the inner basin, ⁷ so the seven-towered right reason of the youths, by fortifying the harbour of religion, conquered the tempest of the emotions.