21 There are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:21
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4 Maccabees 1:27–29
27 In the body, it is greediness, indiscriminate eating, and solitary gluttony. (WEB) 28 As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growths out of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these emotions. (WEB) 29 Reasoning, the universal farmer, purging and pruning each… (WEB)
Apocryphon of John 13:18–20
18 Passions issued forth from the four demons, but from grief: envy, jealousy, misfortune, trouble, pain, cruelty, anxiety, lamentation, and so on. (APJ) 19 However, from pleasure arise plentiful evil, and vacuous arrogance, and the like. (APJ) 20 However, from lust: anger, fury, a… (APJ)
4 Maccabees 9:30–32
30 “Don’t you think, most cruel of all tyrants, that you are now tortured more than I, finding your arrogant conception of tyranny conquered by our perseverance in behalf of our religion? (WEB) 31 For I lighten my suffering by the pleasures which are connected with virtue. (WEB)
Proverbs 14:12–14
12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. 13 Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow. 14 The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
4 Maccabees 2:1–2
1 Is it any wonder? If the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated, (WEB) 2 on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, the indulgence of the senses. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 14:12–14
12 For the mother of those seven youths endured the rackings of each of her children. (WEB) 13 Consider how comprehensive is the love of offspring, which draws every one to sympathy of affection, (WEB) 14 where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspr… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 6:34–35
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 that reasoning has not only mastered pains, but that it is also superior to the pleasures, and withst… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:3–5
3 If, then, reasoning appears to hold the mastery over the emotions which stand in the way of temperance, such as gluttony and lust, (WEB) 4 it surely also and manifestly rules over the affections which are contrary to justice, such as malice, and of those which are hin… (WEB)
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