Epictetus: Discourses, Fragments, Handbook African American & Black New York Times bestselling author

New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain

and all that David Copperfield kind of crap

But let’s be honest

Includes a foreword by Thomas Pynchon

Epictetus: Discourses, Fragments, Handbook African American & Black New York Times bestselling author'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus' Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed slave, whose discourses have a vivid informality,