The Gay Science, Section 108

Some People Do Not Become Thinkers Simply Because Their Memories Are Too Good.

Compulsion Precedes Morality, Indeed Morality Itself Is Compulsion For A Time, To Which One Submits For The Avoidance Of Pain.

Blessed Are The Forgetful: For They Get The Better Even Of Their Blunders.

All Idealists Imagine That The Causes They Serve Are Fundamentally Better Than Any Other Causes In The World, And They Refuse To Believe That If Their Cause Is To Flourish At All It Requires Precisely The Same Foul-smelling Manure That Is Necessary To All Other Human Undertakings.

Beyond Good And Evil, Aphorism 153