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Voices In Time

c. 380 BC | Athens

Goods and Services

Socrates asks what the happy need.More

Voices In Time

1898 | Bakumovka

We Happy Few

Anton Chekhov offers some life advice.More

Voices In Time

1795 | Copenhagen

True North

Mary Wollstonecraft on the happiest people in the world.More

Voices In Time

1770 | Paris

Grace and Favor

Denis Diderot wonders if the grass could be greener.More

Voices In Time

1621 | Oxford

Words to the Wise

Robert Burton on finding a middle emotional ground.More

Voices In Time

1885 | Vilamorta

Pathetic Fallacy

Emilia Pardo Bazán goes inside the echo chamber.More

Voices In Time

1823 | Paris

Present Company Excluded

Claire de Duras gets inside Ourika’s head.More

Voices In Time

c. 1105 | Tus

World to Come

Al-Ghazali on the alchemy of happiness.More

Voices In Time

1817 | London

Accounting for Taste

Jeremy Bentham’s typology of pains and pleasures.More

Voices In Time

1851 | Frankfurt

Paradise Lost

Arthur Schopenhauer looks back in disappointment.More

Voices In Time

1953 | Anaheim, CA

In a Perfect World

A blueprint for a utopia (prices not included).More

Voices In Time

c. 300 BC | Athens

Measure for Measure

Epicurus on the pleasant life.More

Voices In Time

1735 | Philadelphia

Code of Conduct

Benjamin Franklin on the joy of virtue.More

Voices In Time

c. 400 | Chaisang

Do Not Disturb

Tao Qian relaxes in the summer.More

Voices In Time

1919 | Winesburg, OH

Prodigal Son

Sherwood Anderson offers an unexpected improvement.More

Voices In Time

1590 | Eseldorf

Trumpery

Mark Twain confronts Satan.More

Voices In Time

1759 | Abyssinia

Misery Loves Coventry

Samuel Johnson tells the tale of Prince Rasselas.More

Voices In Time

1876 | Laurel Springs, NJ

Looking Up

Walt Whitman has a happy hour.More

Voices In Time

58 | Rome

Soul Asylum

Seneca asks, “What is the happy life?”More

Voices In Time

390 BC | Athens

This Land Is Her Land

Aristophanes begs Athens to listen to the women.More

Voices In Time

c. 200 | Athens

Good News

Alciphron has the latest update.More

Voices In Time

1872 | Downe

Face Value

Charles Darwin watches a baby.More

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