4 Maccabees 3:16-18

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¹⁶ Therefore, opposing reason to desire, he poured out the drink as an offering to God. ¹⁷ For the temperate mind can conquer the drives of the passions and quench the flames of frenzied desires; ¹⁸ it can overthrow bodily agonies even when they are extreme and by nobility of reason spurn all domination by the passions.