Å være verdens salt er fryktelig - når hele verden er som et åpent sår... Être le sel du monde est horrible - quand le monde entier est comme une plaie ouverte ...Al ser la sal del mundo es horrible - cuando todo el mundo es como una herida abierta ... Das Salz der Welt zu sein, ist schrecklich - wenn die ganze Welt wie eine offene Wunde ist ...Being the world's salt is horrible - when the whole world is like an open wound ...

Rule or keep quiet.
Don't squander yourself,
   Giving what you don't have.
What good is the "president" you might have been ?
   Enjoy being the little you are.
The hovel you're given is a better shelter
   Than the palace you're owed...

Let my fate deny me everything except
   To see it,
   For I,
   An unstrict
Stoic, wish to delight in every letter
   Of the sentence engraved by Destiny...