Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.