In De prima philosophia, Vives writes: "human inquiry comes to conjectural conclusions, for we do not deserve certain knowledge (scientia), stained by sin as we are and hence burdened with the great weight of the body; nor do we need it, for we see that man is ordained lord and master of everything in the sublunary world" (III, 188).
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In his Christianized reading of Stoic ethics, however, Lipsius adopted the more religious phrasing of Seneca and Epictetus, so that "living according to nature or virtue" became "living according to right reason," which the Stoics identified with Zeus or God, "the lord and ruler of everything" (Manuductio II.16, referring to Diogenes Laertius VII.88).
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