4 Maccabees 2:9-11

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⁹ If one is greedy, one is ruled by the law through reason so that one neither gleans the harvest nor gathers the last grapes from the vineyard.

In other matters we can recognize that reason rules the passions.^{(A) 10} For the law prevails even over affection for parents, so that virtue is not abandoned for their sakes. ¹¹ It overrules love for one’s wife so that one rebukes her when she breaks the law.