Kautilya's Arthashastra 9.7.65

9.7.65

tasyottarapakṣasiddhau pūrvapakṣaḥ śreyān upasamprāptum //

Wealth or harm, virtue or sin, and enjoyment or grief, are the aggregate of the three kinds of doubts. Of these, it is better to try that which is mentioned first than that which is mentioned later in the order of enumeration, and which it is certain to shake off. Thus the determination of opportunities. Thus ends the discourse on danger.