avilir

Vous vous êtes avilie pour rien.
So you see, my dear, you've abased yourself to no purpose.
Je me suis avilie et j'ai couvert de honte mes enfants et je ne peux pas y retourner.
I degraded myself and I disgraced my children and I can't go back there.
Il ne faut donc blâmer ni la nature, ni une Divinité imaginaire, mais la nature humaine, avilie par l’égoïsme.
Therefore it is neither nature nor an imaginary Deity that has to be blamed, but human nature made vile by selfishness.
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