Happiness is in doing, not in the getting what you want.

Before Sunset

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Happiness

Speaker

Jesse

Actor

Ethan Hawke

Source

Before Sunset

Medium

Film

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Romantic drama (film) Drama (film) Romantic drama Drama

Language

English

Time

2004 2000s 21st century

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Before Sunset. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/ Detour Filmproduction/Columbia Pictures, 2004.

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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Pericles

Quoted in Funeral Oration, by Thucydides

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Happiness Freedom Courage
Speaker
Pericles

Author

Thucydides
Source
Funeral Oration History of the Peloponnesian War
Genre
Historical literature
Language
Greek
Time
430 BC 430s BC 5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Pericles. Quoted in The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.

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Pericles. Quoted in The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

The Third Man

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Harry Lime
Actor
Orson Welles
Source
The Third Man
Medium
Film
Genre
Film noir Drama (film) Drama
Language
English
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
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Citation

The Third Man. Directed by Carol Reed, London Films, 1949.