Epictetus Tom Wolfe is an immensely enjoyable author. I'm not aware of another fictional author who captures the possibility and tragedy of men's vanity better. A Man in Full is not his most critically acclaimed work, but its definitely the work I connected with, due to the intersection of circumstances and content.

Conrad Hensley is young, idealistic, hard-working boy atoning for the sins of his father. Who, me? In the course of his trials, Conrad encounters the works of the Stoics, and is most influenced by the Stoic Epictectus.

Epictetus taught that we could not control anything that happened to us, only our response.

Like all valuable lessons, simple but incredibly difficult.

Labels: In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

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