4 Maccabees 1:31-33

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³¹ Self-control, then, is dominance over the desires. ³² Some desires belong to the soul, others to the body, and reason obviously rules over both. ³³ Otherwise, how is it that when we are attracted to forbidden foods we abstain from the pleasure to be had from them? Is it not because reason is able to rule over appetites? I for one think so.