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Louis Bourdaloue was a French Jesuit and preacher.

✵ 20. August 1632 – 13. May 1704
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Louis Bourdaloue Quotes

“At court, far from regarding ambition as a sin, people regard it as a virtue, or if it passes for a vice, then it is regarded as the vice of great souls, and the vices of great souls are preferred to the virtues of the simple and the small.”

Louis Bourdaloue

as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 137

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