leo the fifth

"Piace più una fetta di pesce spada che cento alici.” “(I would rather have one piece of swordfish than one hundred anchovies.)"

- Proverbio Napolitano

"Each adventurous genius will still leap at the arduous prize, and find himself stimulated, rather that discouraged, by the failures of his predecessors; while he hopes that the glory of achieving so hard an adventure is reserved for him alone."

- David Hume (1739)