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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Hard hands are said to indicate a laborious wage worker, soft hands the opposite. The example partly connects appearance with activity rather than an entirely hidden essence, yet remains embedded in a wider physiognomic catalogue. It should be read as the source’s social inference, not as reliable proof of a person’s occupation, effort, economic status, or character.
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- Book 9 · Signature · Passage 32Latin“Manus durae”