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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
	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. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
	Type: Writer Quotes Category: French Writer Quotes Date of Birth: September 17, 1613 Date of Death: March 17, 1680 Nationality: French Amazon: Francois de La Rochefoucauld on Amazon	Related Authors: Andre Maurois Francois de La Rochefoucauld Joseph Joubert Nicolas de Chamfort Simone de Beauvoir Voltaire Madame de Stael Stendhal
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