[In the course of brutally and rapaciously expanding his empire for his own personal gain Alexander "The Great" captured a pirate:]
Alexander asks the fellow, “What is your idea of infesting the sea?”
And the pirate answered, with uninhibited insolence, “The same as yours, in infesting the earth! But because I do it in a tiny craft, I’m called a pirate: because you have a mighty navy, you are called an emperor.”
