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4 Maccabees 1:31-33
Revised Standard Version
4 Maccabees 1:31-33
Revised Standard Version
31 Self-control, then, is dominance over the desires. 32 Some desires are mental, others are physical, and reason obviously rules over both. 33 Otherwise how is it that when we are attracted to forbidden foods we abstain from the pleasure to be had from them? Is it not because reason is able to rule over appetites? I for one think so.
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