flores marcentes

ex libro de catechizandis rudibus

nonne accidere hoc solet, cum loca quaedam ampla et pulchra, vel urbium vel agrorum, quae iam nos saepe videndo sine aliqua voluptate praeteribamus, ostendimus eis qui antea numquam viderant, ut nostra delectatio in eorum novitatis delectatione renovetur? et tanto magis, quanto sunt amiciores: quia per amoris vinculum in quantum in illis sumus, in tantum et nobis nova fiunt quae vetera fuerunt.

(doesn’t it often happen, when we show wide and beautiful places, either in cities or in fields, which we have often passed through without any pleasure before, to people who have never seen them before, that our joy is renewed in their joy at the novelty? and all the more, the more they are our friends: because as much as we are in them through the bond of friendship, so do the things that were old become new to us, too.)