4 Maccabees 13:2-4

Revised Standard Version

² For if they had been slaves to their emotions and had eaten defiling food, we would say that they had been conquered by these emotions. ³ But in fact it was not so. Instead, by reason, which is praised before God, they prevailed over their emotions. ⁴ The supremacy of the mind over these cannot be overlooked, for the brothers^[a] mastered both emotions and pains.