Sentence examples of "mensonge" in French

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Translations: all88 lie82 falsehood1 other translations5
As-tu déjà entendu le dicton: "Le mensonge conduit au vol ?" Have you ever heard the saying: "Lying leads to thieving?"
Dans un temps de mensonge universel, dire la vérité est un acte révolutionnaire. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
On a découvert le mensonge de Nixon parce qu'il avait mis son propre bureau sous écoute. Nixon was caught lying because he bugged his own office.
Pour les gens ordinaires, la religion est vérité, pour les sages, elle est mensonge, pour les dirigeants, elle est utile. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
On a dit que l'homme à dix ans est un animal, à vingt un fou, à trente un échec, à quarante un mensonge et à cinquante un criminel. It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.
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