We then saw what St. Jerome said of those who serve God and those who serve the world: "Each to the other we seem insane": Invicem insanire videmur. There is a never-ending duel between the two.

— Jean de La Fontaine Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Port-Royal (1752)

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