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)

Louis Bourdaloue

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