Nietzsche: May your sorrow be love for the Overhuman: thus may you justify your own living on!

There is no redemption for one who suffers from himself so much, unless it be a quick death.

Your killing, you judges, shall be compassion and not revenge. And as you kill, see to it that you yourselves justify life!

It is not enough that you are reconciled with the one you kill. May your sorrow be love for the Overhuman: thus may you justify your own living on!

‘Enemy’ shall you say, but not ‘evil-doer’; ‘sick man’ shall you say, but not ‘knave’; ‘fool’ shall you say, but not ‘sinner’.

And you, scarlet judge, if you were to say out loud all you have already done in your thoughts, everyone would cry out: ‘Away with this filth and poison-worm!’

But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of grounds does not roll between them.

• Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, On the Pale Criminal, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, (1883)