"The Prince's Valour consists not only in resisting, but withal in weighing Dangers, and submitting to the less, when the greater is insuperable. For as it is the part of Prudence to prevent, so it is of Courage and Constancy bear patiently what is not in the power of Prudence to decline. One Peril is ordinarily the Remedy of another"
Diego de Saavedra Fajardo. Idea de un príncipe político cristiano (1640)