The three kinds of goods
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Stromata
The Peripatetic classification of goods into three kinds, with corresponding evils, cited as parallel to the law's list of intermediate fearful things.
and to the men of the Peripatos, who introduce three kinds of goods and reckon their opposites to be evils, this opinion is harmonious.
Letters to Lucilius
The Stoic threefold classification of goods into primary (naturally desired), secondary (arising only in adversity), and intermediate goods.
Those two higher goods are diverse.
For certain goods, as it seems to our school, are primary, such as joy, peace, the safety of one's country;
But it esteems certain goods as primary, to which it comes of set purpose, such as victory, good children, the safety of one's country.