4 Maccabees 2:18
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the passions, and to transfer some, and destroy others.
Greek · Brenton
Δυνατὸς γὰρ ὁ σώφρων νοῦς, ὡς ἔφην, κατὰ τῶν παθῶι ἀριστεῦσαι, καὶ τὰ μὲν αὐτῶν μεταθεῖναι, τὰ δὲ καὶ ἀκυρῶσαι.