70. It is better to live, Even to live miserably; A living man can always get a cow. I saw fire consume The rich man’s property, And death stood without his door. 71. The halt can ride on horseback. The one-handed drive cattle; The deaf, fight and be useful: To be blind is better Than to be burnt:[11] No one gets good from a corpse. 72. A son is better Even if born late, After his father’s departure. Gravestones seldom Stand by the way-side Unless raised by a kinsman to a kinsman. 73. Two are adversaries: The tongue is the bane of the head: Under every cloak I expect a hand. 74. At night is joyful He who is sure of traveling entertainment; A ship’s yards are short; Variable is an autumn night, Many are the weather’s changes In five days, But more in a month. 75. He knows not, Who knows nothing, That many a one apes another, One man is rich, Another poor: Let him not be thought blameworthy. 76. Cattle die, Kindred die, We ourselves also die; But the fair fame Never dies Of him who has earned it. 77. Cattle die, Kindred die, We ourselves also die; But I know one thing That never dies,— Judgment on each one dead. 78. Full storehouses I saw At Dives’ sons’: Now bear they the beggar’s staff. Such are riches, As is the twinkling of an eye: Of friends they are most fickle. 79. A foolish man, If he acquires Wealth or woman’s love, Pride grows within him, But wisdom never: He goes on more and more arrogant. 80. Thus ’t is made manifest, If of runes thou questionest him, Those to the high ones known, Which the great powers invented, And the great talker[12] painted, That he had best hold silence. 81. At eve the day is to be praised, A woman after she is burnt,[13] A sword after it is proved, A maid after she is married, Ice after it has been crossed, Beer after it is drunk.