"Deyr fe,
deyja frændr,
deyr sjálfr et sama;
ek veit einn,
at aldri deyr:
dómr of dauðan hvern."

"Wealth dies.
Friends die.
One day you too will die.
But the thing that never dies
is the judgment of how you spent your life. "

Hávamál, The way of the Norseman.