Sex: a sweet poison only to the withered, but to the lion-willed the great cordial and the reverently reserved wine of wines. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

It is a shame for those who sweeten drink with the gifts of the bees, by badness to embitter reason which is the gift of the gods. Fragment

Religious values tend to be especially deeply held and hence frequent cause of disastrous behaviour. [...] The modern world provides us with abundant secular examples of admirable values to which we cling under conditions where those values no longer make sense [...] It appears to me that much of the rigid opposition to environmental concerns in the First World nowadays involves values acquired early in life and never again reexamined [...]. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade. Moby Dick