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Finally, politike enemies, have still given way to resolute, yea even when they were vanquished: A resolved or a famished enemie that would get loose or die, make him a bridge of gold to flee upon. Certainly, a couragious enemy is never despised, a politike one may bee.

— Giovanni Botero Relationi Universali (1595)

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