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d. 1704 France

Louis Bourdaloue (August 20, 1632 – May 13, 1704) was a French Jesuit and preacher.

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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.

The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927)

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