 Having quoted the same passage in De constantia (I.14), in a similarly religious vein, Lipsius once again asserted, with his “Christian” Seneca, that “we are born into a kingdom where obedience to God is true liberty” (Manuductio III.12). Here, however, he explained why the ancient Greek Stoic Cleanthes could rightly say that our common, universal nature is God himself. If man is to obey his own nature, Lipsius argued, he must not oppose the universal laws of human nature; and these laws are dictated by the reason or logos which the Stoics equated with God.