Taste.
Power is right, knavery common sense,
Honour a sound, and principle pretence:
Virtue’s abandoned, honesty’s disgraced,
Plain sense is scorned; what rivals all is—Taste!
Les Riens.
Quand on aime, rien n’est frivole.
Un rien sert ou nuit au bonheur;
Un rien afflige, un rien console;