 For all his devotion to the Stoics, Lipsius presented a rather eclectic account of their moral philosophy, cutting and trimming as religious orthodoxy required, since by no means all Stoic teachings were compatible with Christianity. It was for this reason that he rejected the Stoic doctrine of ethically indifferent actions (Manuductio II.23). It also explains why he embraced some of the Stoic paradoxes, such as the notion that a kingdom should please the wise man no more than slavery (Manuductio III.12), which reinforced Christian humility, while rejecting others, such as the Stoic dictum that the wise man was, by his own decision, at liberty to take his own life (Manuductio III.22–23), which was blatantly opposed to Christian belief.