To ordinary human beings, finally--the vast majority who exist for service and the general advantage, and who may exist only for that--religion gives in inestimable contentment with their situation and type, manifold peace of heart, an ennobling of obedience, one further happiness and sorrow with their peers and something transfiguring and beautifying, something of a justification for the whole everyday character, the whole lowliness, the whole half-brutish poverty of their souls. Religion and religious significance spread the splendor of the sun over such ever-toiling human beings and make their own sight tolerable to them. Beyond Good and Evil

If virtue promises good fortune and tranquility and happiness, certainly also the progress towards virtue is progress towards each of these things. Discourses

. "They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.” Gooseberries

"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." The Analects of Confucius