For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153