Usage examples of "l'on" in French with translation to English

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On récolte ce que l'on sème. What one has sown one will have to reap.
Ce séisme fut le plus important que l'on ait jamais vécu. The earthquake was the biggest one that we had ever experienced.
Dans toute décision que l'on prend il y a une considération d'options. In any decision one makes there is a weighing of options.
Un génie n'est que quelqu'un que l'on a sauvé de la folie. Genius is only one remove from insanity.
La philosophie n'est pas de ces choses que l'on peut apprendre en six mois. Philosophy is not a thing one can learn in six months.
Peut-être que tout ce que l'on peut espérer est de finir avec les bons regrets. Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Il est vain, si l'on plante un chêne, d'espérer s'abriter bientôt sous son feuillage. If one plants an oak, it is futile to hope to soon be able to take cover under its leaves.
La compétence la plus précieuse que l'on puisse acquérir est celle d'être capable de penser par soi-même. The most valuable skill one can acquire is the ability to think for oneself.
Pour beaucoup il semble incompréhensible que l'on puisse aimer la vie, bien qu'on ne lui trouve aucun sens. For many, it seems to be ungraspable that one can love life without seeing any point in it.
Si, de la fierté ou de l'amour, l'on choisit la fierté, cela peut-il alors avoir été de l'amour ? If, between pride and love, one chooses pride, can it then have been love?
Il n'est point utile d'être écrivain si l'on n'est pas en harmonie avec le monde dans lequel on vit. It is no use being a writer if one is not in sympathy with the world in which one is living.
On ne peut davantage écrire en bon anglais que l'on ne peut composer de la bonne musique, en respectant seulement les règles. One can no more write good English than one can compose good music, merely by keeping the rules.
L'anthropologiste étatsunienne Margaret Mead déclara un jour que l'on ne devrait jamais sous-estimer ce qu'un petit groupe de personnes dévouées peut accomplir. The American anthropologist Margaret Mead once said that one should never underestimate what a small group of dedicated people can accomplish.
L’iaidō est une forme d'escrime qui frappe un attaquant d'un seul coup d'épée, rapidement dégainée de son fourreau, que l'on soit assis ou en déambulation. Iaido, it is a form of swordsmanship that strikes down an attacking opponent with one blow of the sword quickly drawn out of its sheath, whether one is sitting or walking.
Finalement, la « féminité » est quelque chose dont une femme est naturellement dotée, il n'est point besoin de faire le moindre effort pour en faire état, et c'est une caractéristique telle que si l'on se mettait à faire des efforts conscients pour la cacher, cela n'aboutirait à rien. In the end, "feminity" is something that a woman is naturally furnished with, there is no need to make any effort to show it, and it's a quality such that even if one were to make conscious efforts to hide it, it would lead to nothing.
Il ne faut pas remettre à demain ce que l'on peut faire aujourd'hui Never put off till tomorrow what can be done today
Demandez, et l'on vous donnera. Ask, and it shall be given you.
On récolte ce que l'on a semé. You reap what you sow.
Je proteste que l'on me traite ainsi. I object to being treated like that.
J'ai entendu que l'on m'appelait. I heard my name called.
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