indifferent, n.Definitions

An Indifferent (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠anything that is neither virtue nor vice — your health, your wealth, your reputation, your very life.

The Indifferent (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠life, health, pleasure, beauty, strength, riches, reputation and noble birth, along with their contraries, since none of them benefits or injures.

An Indifferent (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠whatever can fall to the bad as readily as to the good — money, beauty, high social position.

An Indifferent (n.) would ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠stay indifferent however Zeus had arranged it — or if no one had, or if a hateful anti-Zeus had: its status comes from what kind of creatures we are, not from who dealt the cards.

An Indifferent (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not something you must be indifferent to; you may chase it hard, but it can never turn a good life into a bad one.

An Indifferent (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what can occur to a bad person as well as a good one, like money, beauty and high birth; whatever only a good person can have is good.

The Indifferent (n.) takes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in sickness, pain, poverty, exile and death: it is glorious in nothing by itself, yet nothing can be glorious apart from it.

Indifferent (n.) things ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠cannot be bad at one time and good at another; they become honourable or base only by being blended with virtue or vice, as nothing gleams without light.