There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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Nature Actions have consequences

Author

Robert G. Ingersoll

Source

Some Reasons Why

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

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United States

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Ingersoll, Robert Green. "The Christian Religion." The North American Review, Aug. 1881.

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In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

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Nature of women Men and women

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Beyond Good and Evil
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1886 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 4, no. 134.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4, no. 134.

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

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Beauty of nature Nature

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Aristotle
Source
On the Parts of Animals
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
Greek
Time
350 BC 350s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Aristotle. Περὶ ζῴων μορίων [Parts of Animals]. c. 350 BC.

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Aristotle. "Parts of Animals I." Aristotle: Generation of Animals & History of Animals 1, Parts of Animals 1, translated by C. D. C. Reeve. Hackett Publications, 2019.