5 Jorge Luis Borges Quotes on Morality

Jorge Luis Borges quotes on morality

8. Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

69. I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

89. In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

124. El infierno y el paraiso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres no merecen tanto.

125. Hay que tener cuidado al elegir a los enemigos porque uno termina pareciendose a ellos.