Louis Bourdaloue

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

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