Sentence examples of "commencement" in French with translation "beginning"
Au commencement, Dieu créa les cieux et la terre.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Au commencement, l'homme était presque pareil aux autres animaux.
In the beginning, man was almost the same as the other animals.
Bien sûr, reconnaître notre humanité commune est seulement le commencement de notre tâche.
Of course, recognizing our common humanity is only the beginning of our task.
Messieurs, au commencement de ce siècle, la France était pour les nations un magnifique spectacle.
Gentlemen, at the beginning of this century, France was for all nations a magnificent sight.
Les choses compliquées dans le monde doivent avoir un commencement simple; aux grandes choses un début modeste.
Difficult things in the world must have their beginnings in the easy; big things must have their beginnings in the small.
Je suis l'Alpha et l'Oméga, le premier et le dernier, le commencement et la fin.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
Il est vrai qu'Aristote distingue le tyran du roi, en ce que le premier gouverne pour sa propre utilité et le second seulement pour l'utilité de ses sujets ; mais il s'ensuivrait de la distinction d'Aristote que depuis le commencement du monde il n'aurait pas encore existé un seul roi.
It is true that Aristotle distinguishes the tyrant from the king by the fact that the former governs in his own interest, and the latter only for the good of his subjects; but it would follow from Aristotle's distinction that, from the very beginning of the world, there has not yet been a single king.
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