A leopard cannot change its spots

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One can't change one's essential nature. It is normally used to suggest that people who have done bad things will always be bad people.

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‘A leopard cannot change its spots’ is found in the Bible, Jeremiah 13:23 (King James Version): “Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.”