Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche Chapter 9 Page 47

It is thus conceivable that it is just from woman — who is clairvoyant in the world of suffering, and also unfortunately eager to help and save to an extent far beyond her powers — that THEY have learnt so readily those outbreaks of boundless devoted SYMPATHY, which the multitude, above all the reverent multitude, do not understand, and overwhelm with prying and self-gratifying interpretations. This sympathizing invariably deceives itself as to its power; woman would like to believe that love can do EVERYTHING — it is the SUPERSTITION peculiar to her. Alas, he who knows the heart finds out how poor, helpless, pretentious, and blundering even the best and deepest love is — he finds that it rather DESTROYS than saves! — It is possible that under the holy fable and travesty of the life of Jesus there is hidden one of the most