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An elegant and true response to Alexander the Greats question was

made by a pirate he had captured. When in that case he asked the
man why he had infested the seas, he contemptuously answered:
The same reason as you do to the world, but while I operate with one
boat, I am called a robber; but since you have a great fleet, emperor.
~ Saint Augustine, City of God, book IV, ch 4.
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