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IV Maccabees 1
IV Maccabees 1:18-28
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And the forms of wisdom are prudence, and justice, and manliness, and temperance.
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The leading one of these is prudence; by whose means, indeed, it is that reasoning bears rule over the passions.
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Of the passions, pleasure and pain are the two most comprehensive; and they also by nature refer to the soul.
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And there are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain.
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Before pleasure is lust; and after pleasure, joy.
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And before pain is fear; and after pain is sorrow.
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Wrath is an affection, common to pleasure and to pain, if any one will pay attention when it comes upon him.
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And there exists in pleasure a malicious disposition, which is the most multiform of all the affections.
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In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money, and vaingloriousness, and contention, and faithlessness, and the evil eye.
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In the body it is greediness and gormandizing, and solitary gluttony.
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As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growth of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these passions.
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