“Aphorisms on Man” is a work by Johann Caspar Lavater, a Swiss poet and physiognomist. The book was translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater. Aphorisms are concise statements that convey a general truth or observation about life.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater was a Swiss Reformed pastor, poet, theologian, and writer whose ideas circulated widely through eighteenth-century European correspondence. Aphorisms On Man appeared in English in 1788 through Henry Fuseli’s translation from Lavater’s manuscript. The compact observations consider character, friendship, talent, self-knowledge, judgment, art,…
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