Isaac Sirin. Words Ascetic (№ 421394)

It is better to turn away passions by mindfulness of virtues than by resistance, because passions, when they come out of their field and are erected on swearing, imprint in the mind their images and likenesses. This swearing acquires great power over the mind, greatly disturbing and discordant thinking. And if you act according to the first rule we said, then there is no trace of passions in the mind to chase them away.