4 Maccabees 2:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴ Not only is reason proved to rule over the frenzied urge of sexual desire, but also over every desire.^{[a] 5} Thus the law says, ‘You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife or anything that is your neighbour’s.’ ⁶ In fact, since the law has told us not to covet, I could prove to you all the more that reason is able to control desires.

Just so it is with the emotions that hinder one from justice.