Stobaeus on Stoic Ethics 1

This new series of posts is from a presentation of Stoic ethics preserved in the Anthology of Stobaeus (5th century AD). It was most likely written by Arius Didymus (1st century BC). 

The views of Zeno and the rest of the Stoics about the ethical part of philosophy: 

Zeno says that whatever participates in substance exists and that of things which exist some are good, some bad, and some indifferent. 

Good are things like this: prudence, temperance, justice, courage, and everything which either is virtue or participates in virtue. 

Bad are things like this: imprudence, wantonness, injustice, cowardice, and everything which either is vice or participates in vice. 

Indifferent are things like this: life and death, good and bad reputation, pleasure and pain, wealth and poverty, health and disease, and things similar to these.