There are sacrifices worth doing because the expected compensation is worthwhile

From 1584 to 1589 France was devastated by the so-called “war of three Henrys”: Henry duke of Guise (catholic), Henry III king of France (catholic) and Henry of Navarre (protestant). During this war Henry, duke of Guise, was assassinated by Henry III, who was forced to flee Paris and eventually killed the following year. Henry of Navarre was the sole survivor and realized that, in order to become king of France and conquer the fanatically catholic Paris, he had to renounce Protestantism in favor of Catholicism. So he did, and it was in this occasion that he uttered the famous phrase “Paris vaut bien un messe” (Paris is well worth a mass). Henry of Navarre was then formally accepted into the Roman Catholic Church and was crowned King of France as Henry IV in the Chartres cathedral in 1594