Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

[El infierno y el paraíso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres no merecen tanto.]

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Argentine writer

(Attributed)

Quoted in Pilar Bravo and Mario Paoletti, ed., Borges Verbal (1999).