Becoming accustomed (consuetudo) in fact makes the endurance of misfortunes easy (which is then falsely honored with the name of a virtue, namely patience), for when sensations of exactly the same kind persist for a long time without change and draw one’s attention away from the senses, one is barely conscious of them anymore. But this also makes consciousness and memory of the good that one has received more difficult, which then usually leads to ingratitude.
—Immanuel Kant - Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (via shakingtambourine)
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