4 Maccabees 3:1-3

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3 ¹ This notion is entirely ridiculous; for it is evident that reason rules not over its own emotions, but over those of the body. ² No one of us can eradicate that kind of desire, but reason can provide a way for us not to be enslaved by desire. ³ No one of us^[a] can eradicate anger from the mind, but reason can help to deal with anger.