Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent
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What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent
of the undertaking and the accomplishment of your wish?
[Lat., Quid tam dextro pede concipis ut te conatus non poeniteat
votique peracti?]

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
And from your judgment must expect my fate.

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
And from your judgment must expect my fate.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

My friend, judge not me,
Thou seest I judge not thee;
Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,
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My friend, judge not me,
Thou seest I judge not thee;
Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,
Mercy I askt, mercy I found.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's
judgment.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's
judgment.