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“if, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and the evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is the much-talked-of immortality, Possibly,” — José Saramago
if, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the
consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate
consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the
imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where
our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and the evil resulting
from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves,
one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way,
throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days,
when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves
or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is
the much-talked-of immortality, Possibly,