Stockdale on Stoicism 25

Neither good nor evil can be abstractions. Epictetus said: "Where do I look for the good and the evil? Within me, in that which is my own." 

But for that which is another's never employ the words "good" or "evil," or anything of the sort. Goods and evils can never be things others do to you, or for you. 

Why not make health or life be good? Because man deserves the good, and it's better that he not "deserve" anything he does not control; otherwise, he will go after what is not his, and this is the start of crime, wars, you name it. 

—from James B. Stockdale, The Stoic Warrior's Triad