"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."
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as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 137
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Louis Bourdaloue
Louis Bourdaloue (August 20, 1632 – May 13, 1704) was a French Jesuit and preacher.
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