Robert Louis Stevenson. The Night Of François Villon (№ 398107)

For the revelers money is something alive and active, only a thin veil between him and pleasure. The limit of this choice lays only time. With a few Louis in his pocket reveller feels the Roman Emperor, until you spend it to the last penny. This to lose money means to feel the greatest misfortune to be transported instantly from heaven to hell, after of omnipotence to fall into complete insignificance.