The more things change, etc..

I had to chuckle when I came across this yesterday:

"Who nowadays believes in the good things unseen, the good things of paradise? Who cares about them? They do not know what they are. Today the world is full of this sin. Nowadays they feel no fear of the threasts and pains of hell. They simply do not believe in them. They do not place hope in any other life than the present."

1311, Giordano of Pisa, complaining of low church attendance and unbelief.

and coming upon this line: Sub sole nihil novi est.

Under the sun there is nothing new.

Then there's Ecclesiastes 1:9:

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

Friday!!!