14 Let’s determine, then, what reasoning is and what emotion is, and how many forms of emotion there are, and whether reasoning rules over all of these. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:14
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4 Maccabees 2:23–24
23 He gave a law to this mind, by living according to which it will maintain a temperate, just, good, and courageous reign. (WEB) 24 How, then, a man may say, if reasoning is master of the emotions, has it no control over forgetfulness and ignorance? (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:4–6
4 it surely also and manifestly rules over the affections which are contrary to justice, such as malice, and of those which are hindrances to courage, such as wrath, pain, and fear. (WEB) 5 Perhaps some may ask, “How is it, then, that reasoning, if it rules the emotions… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:29–31
29 Reasoning, the universal farmer, purging and pruning each of these, tying up, watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections. (WEB) 30 For reasoning is the leader of the virtues, but it is the sole ruler of the emotions. O… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 2:6–8
6 Now, then, since it is the law which has forbidden us to desire, I shall much the more easily persuade you, that reasoning is able to govern our lusts, just as it does the affections which are impediments to justice. (WEB) 7 Since in what way is a solitary eater, a gl… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 13:4–6
4 It is impossible to overlook the leadership of reflection, for it gained the victory over both emotions and troubles. (WEB) 5 How, then, can we avoid according to these men mastery of emotion through right reasoning, since they didn’t withdraw from the pains of fire? (WEB) 6 F… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 3:4–6
4 Any one of you may not be able to eradicate malice, but reasoning has force to work with you to prevent you yielding to malice. (WEB) 5 For reasoning is not an eradicator, but an antagonist of the emotions. (WEB) 6 This may be more clearly comprehended from the thirst of King… (WEB)
Sirach 18:7–9
7 When a man has finished, then he is just at the beginning. When he stops, then he will be perplexed. (WEB) 8 What is mankind, and what purpose do they serve? What is their good, and what is their evil? (WEB) 9 The number of man’s days at the most are a hundred years. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:18–20
18 The forms of wisdom are self-control, justice, courage, and temperance. (WEB) 19 The leading one of these is self-control, by whose means, indeed, it is that reasoning rules over the emotions. (WEB) 20 Of the emotions, pleasure and pain are the two most comprehensive; and they a… (WEB)
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