Sem Tob's Proverbios Morales and Antonio Machado's Proverbios y Cantares

Sem Tob (1290-1369)

Man cannot trust two things,

being both equally doubtful:

the world and the sea . . .

Esfuerço en dos cosas
Non puede omre tomar
Tanto son de dudosas
El mundo e la mar

Antonio Machado (1875-1939)

Everyman has two battles to fight:

with God in his dreams

and when awake,

with the sea.


XXVIII
Todo hombre tiene dos
batallas que pelear:
en sueños lucha con Dios;
y despierto, con el mar.