The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.
StendhalI think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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