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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.
Louis Bourdaloue
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Louis Bourdaloue
Born:
August 20, 1632
Died:
May 13, 1704
(aged 71)
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Louis Bourdaloue was a French Jesuit and preacher.
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