“A service beyond all recompense
Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense.”

— Pierre Corneille, Suréna

Un service au-dessus de toute récompense
À force d'obliger tient presque lieu d'offense.
Orode, Suréna (1674), act III, scene I.

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French tragedian 1606–1684

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