It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.

If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim.

It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.