15 Reasoning is intellect accompanied by a life of righteousness, putting foremost the consideration of wisdom. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:15
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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)
Epistle to Diognetus 12:6–8
6 For the man who supposes that he knows anything without the true knowledge which is testified by the life, is ignorant, he is deceived by the serpent, because he loved not life; whereas he who with fear recognises and desires life plants in hope expecting fru… (DIO)
4 Maccabees 1:1–3
1 As I am going to demonstrate a most philosophical proposition, namely, that religious reasoning is absolute master of the emotions. I would willingly advise you to give the utmost heed to philosophy. (WEB) 2 For reason is necessary to everyone as a step to science. In… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 6:33–35
33 But now, since reasoning conquered the emotions, we befittingly award it the authority of first place. (WEB) 34 It is only fair that we should allow that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries. (WEB) 35 It would be ridiculous if it weren’t so. I prove… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:18–20
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4 Maccabees 1:5–7
5 Perhaps some may ask, “How is it, then, that reasoning, if it rules the emotions, isn’t also master of forgetfulness and ignorance?” They attempt a ridiculous argument. (WEB) 6 For reasoning does not rule over its own emotions, but over those that are contrary to just… (WEB)
Sirach 14:19–21
19 Every work rots and falls away, and its builder will depart with it. (WEB) 20 Blessed is the man who meditates on wisdom, and who reasons by his understanding. (WEB) 21 He who considers her ways in his heart will also have knowledge of her secrets. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 14:1–3
1 More that this, they even urged them on to this mistreatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love. (WEB) 2 Reasoning is more royal than a king, and freer than freemen! (WEB) 3 What a sacred and har… (WEB)
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