The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.