Translation for "un œil pour œil" to english
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9. Dans sa déclaration vibrante d'émotion, Mgr Tutu a rappelé certains principes que l'on semble parfois oublier : si nous appliquions au pied de la lettre la loi du talion "œil pour œil, dent pour dent", nous finirions tous aveugles.
9. In his captivating address, Monsignor Tutu made a number of points which sometimes appear to be forgotten: if we applied the saying "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" literally, all of us would end up blind.
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