4 Maccabees 5:21-23

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²¹ for in either case the law is equally despised. ²² You scoff at our philosophy as though living by it were irrational, ²³ but it teaches us self-control, so that we master all pleasures and desires, and it also trains us in courage, so that we endure any suffering willingly;