4 Maccabees 2:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁸ For, as I have said, the temperate mind is able to get the better of the emotions, to correct some, and to render others powerless. ¹⁹ Why else did Jacob, our most wise father, censure the households of Simeon and Levi for their irrational slaughter of the entire tribe of the Shechemites, saying, ‘Cursed be their anger’? ²⁰ For if reason could not control anger, he would not have spoken thus.