 They argue that health, pleasure, beauty, strength, wealth, good reputation, and noble birth are neither good nor bad. Since they can be used well or badly and the good is invariably good, these assets are not good. The virtues, however, are good (DL VII 102–103), since they are perfections of our rationality, and only rationally perfected thoughts and decisions can possibly have the features of harmony and order in which goodness itself consists. Since possessing and exercising virtue is happiness, happiness does not include such things as health, pleasure, and wealth. Still, the Stoics do not dismiss these assets altogether since they still have a kind of value. These things are indifferent to happiness in that they do not add to one’s virtue nor detract from it, and so they do not add to or take away from one’s possession of the good. One is not more virtuous because healthy nor less virtuous because ill. But being healthy generally conforms with nature’s plans for the lives of animals and plants, so it is preferable to be healthy, and one should try to preserve and maintain one’s health. Health is, then, the kind of value they call a preferred indifferent; but it is not in any way a good, and it makes no contribution to the quality of one’s life as a good or a bad one, happy or miserable.