Quotation by

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

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The quote suggests that from the moment a person is born, their natural qualities set limits on the kinds of moral strengths and weaknesses they can have. It implies that a person's potential for goodness or wickedness is largely fixed by their innate nature rather than by external factors.

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