The Stoic Universe. Marcus Aurelius 6.1

The Stoic universe is one in which no objective or natural events are bad. Wickedness belongs to perception, which the Stoics conceive as necessarily individual. I perceive the world, and that is how it appears wicked, to me, sometimes, in spite of being righteous. Controlling wickedness is a matter of managing my perception, learning to respond virtuously to the bad, and the good, and the indifferent that I see everywhere around me.

Ἡ τῶν ὅλων οὐσία εὐπειθὴς καὶ εὐτρεπής, ὁ δὲ ταύτην διοικῶν λόγος οὐδεμίαν ἐν ἑαυτῷ αἰτίαν ἔχει τοῦ κακοποιεῖν, κακίαν γὰρ οὐκ ἔχει· οὐδέ τι κακῶς ποιεῖ οὐδὲ βλάπτεταί τι ὑπ’ ἐκείνου. πάντα δὲ κατ’ ἐκεῖνον γίνεται καὶ περαίνεται.

The material being of the universe is docile and quick to respond, and the rational principle that rules it holds in itself no occasion for doing evil, as wickedness is not something it possesses. So it does nothing badly, nor is anything every harmed by it. All things happen in accordance with this rational principle, achieving their natural end by it.