4 Maccabees 1:6
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
For reasoning does not rule over its own affections, but over such as are contrary to justice, and manliness, and temperance, and prudence; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them.
Greek · Brenton
γελοῖον ἐπιχειροῦντες λέγειν· οὐ γὰρ τῶν ἑαυτοῦ παθῶν ὁ λογισμὸς κρατεῖ, ἀλλὰ τῶν τῆς δικαιοσύνης καὶ ἀνδρείας καὶ σωφροσύνης, καὶ φρονήσεως ἐναντίων· καὶ τούτων, οὐχ ὥστε αὐτὰ καταλῦσαι, ἀλλʼ ὥστε αὐτοῖς μὴ εἶξαι.