Historical literatureHappiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.PericlesThucydides, Funeral Oration, History of the Peloponnesian War · 430 BC★ 7.5
Novel · Magazine · Modernist literatureHe was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life.James JoyceThe Egoist · 1915★ 7.1
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.Walter BenjaminOne Way Street · 1979★ 6.0
PoemMan was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.William Blake1805★ 5.4