Beyond Good And Evil, Aphorism 153

Morality Is The Best Of All Devices For Leading Mankind By The Nose.

Pity Makes Suffering Contagious.

The Surest Sign Of The Estrangement Of The Opinions Of Two Persons Is When They Both Say Something Ironical To Each Other And Neither Of Them Feels The Irony.

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!

This Is The Crux Of The Moral Pessimists: If They Really Wanted To Promote Their Neighbor's Redemption, Then They Would Have To Resolve Themselves To Spoiling Existence For Him, And Thus To Being His Misfortune; Out Of Pity, They Would Have To--become Evil!