Sentence examples of "vertu" in French with translation "virtue"
Au dire de tous, Fr. Mulligan était un parangon de vertu.
By all accounts, Fr. Mulligan was a paragon of virtue.
Dans cette société où tout est jetable, c'est une vertu d'utiliser quelque chose jusqu'à ce qu'elle s'use.
In this society where everything is disposable, it is a virtue to use something until it wears out.
Il n'y a que les pauvres gens qui payent comptant. Ce n'est pas par vertu; c'est parce qu'on ne leur fait pas crédit.
It is only the poor who pay cash. That's not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Bernard de Chartres avait l'habitude de dire que nous sommes comme des nains sur les épaules de géants, de telle manière que nous pouvons voir davantage qu'eux, et des choses à plus grande distance, non pas en vertu d'une quelconque acuité visuelle de notre part, ou une quelconque particularité physique, mais parce que nous sommes portés haut et soulevés par leur taille géante.
Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.
Nos vertus ne sont, le plus souvent, que des vices déguisés.
Our virtues are, most often, only disguised vices.
Les vertus devraient être soeurs ainsi que les vices sont frères.
Virtues should be sisters, the same way vices are brothers.
Qu'est-ce qu'une mauvaise herbe ? Une plante dont les vertus n'ont pas encore été découvertes.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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