E3P36

Proposition — Part III

Latin

Qui rei qua semel delectatus est, recordatur, cupit eadem cum iisdem potiri circumstantiis ac cum primo ipsa delectatus est.

English (Elwes 1883)

He who remembers a thing, in which he has once taken delight, desires to possess it under the same circumstances as when he first took delight therein.

Modern English

Whoever remembers a thing in which he once took delight desires to have it again under the same circumstances as when he first took delight in it.