Sentence examples of "silent" in English
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Sur ce dont on ne peut parler, il faut garder le silence.
He kept silent all the time during the interrogation.
Il garda le silence pendant tout le temps de l'interrogation.
It is better to remain silent, than to talk without purpose.
Mieux vaut se taire que parler pour ne rien dire.
A kiss is the best way to keep silent while saying it all.
Le baiser est la plus sûre façon de se taire en disant tout.
We have medicines to make women speak; we have none to make them silent.
Nous avons des remèdes pour faire parler les femmes; nous n'en avons pas pour les faire taire.
I think it's strange that Alice should keep silent for such a long time.
Je trouve ça bizarre qu'Alice garde le silence si longtemps.
He who does not know how to remain silent, does not know how to speak either.
Celui qui ne sait pas se taire, il ne sait pas non plus parler.
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
Et lorsque le sablier s'est écoulé, le sablier de la temporalité, lorsque le bruit de la vie séculière s'est tu et que son incessante ou inefficace agitation a pris fin, lorsque tout autour de vous est immobile comme cela est dans l'éternité, alors l'éternité vous interroge vous et chaque individu parmi ces millions et ces millions, à propos d'une seule chose : si vous avez vécu ou pas dans le désespoir.
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