4 Maccabees 2:18-20

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¹⁸ For, as I have said, the temperate mind is able to get the better of the emotions, to correct some, and to render others powerless. ¹⁹ Why else did Jacob, our most wise father, censure the households of Sim′eon and Levi for their irrational slaughter of the entire tribe of the She′chemites, saying, “Cursed be their anger”? ²⁰ For if reason could not control anger, he would not have spoken thus.