4>19. If sayings of the saints did not exist whose language seemed to clearly state the opposite, I would firmly assert this and the following conclusion. I nevertheless claim that they are probable and can be defended rationally, the first of which is: that a mortal sin in itself is a finite evil.
4>20. The second is: that for a mortal sin of a finite time an infinite temporal penalty is not due, but only a finite penalty.

- Pico della Mirandola, 900 Theses