the rest. Neutral (neither good nor evil, that is) are all those things which neither benefit nor harm a man : such as life, health, pleasure, beauty, strength, wealth, fair fame and noble birth, and their opposites, death, disease, pain, ugliness, weakness, poverty, ignominy, low birth, and the like. This Hecato affirms in his Define, book vii., and also Apollodorus in his Ethics, and Chrysippus. For, say they, such things (as life, health, and pleasure) are not in themselves goods, but are morally indifferent, though falling under the species or subdivision " things preferred." For as the property of hot is to warm, not to cool, so the property of good is to benefit, not to injure ; but wealth and health do no more benefit than injury, therefore neither wealth nor health is good. Further, they say that that is not good of which both good and bad use can be made : but of wealth and health both good and bad use can be made ; therefore wealth and health are not goods. On the other hand, Posidonius maintains that these things too are among goods. Hecato in the ninth book of his treatise On Goods, and Chrysippus in his work On Pleasure, deny that pleasure is a good either ; for some pleasures are disgraceful, and nothing disgraceful is good. To benefit is to set in motion or sustain in accordance with virtue ; whereas to harm is to set in motion or sustain in accordance with vice. The term " indifferent " has two meanings : in the first it denotes the things which do not contribute either to happiness or to misery, as wealth, fame, health, strength, and the like ; for it is possible to be happy without having these, although, if they are used in a certain way, such use of them tends to