“The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.”
Lucian (120) ancient Greek writer
"Menippus, a Necromantic Experiment", sect. 4; vol. 1, p. 158.
“Falling from the pan
Into the fire beneath.”
— Ludovico Ariosto, book Orlando Furioso
Canto XIII, stanza 30 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
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