To reproach a man with favours conferred is tantamount to an affront.

— Jean Racine Iphigénie (1674)

Un bienfait reproché tient toujours lieu d’offense.

Original text (French)

Notes from Wikiquote

Agamemnon, act IV, scene VI. | Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 220

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