When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.
Augustine, R. W. Dyson (1998). “Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans”, p.148, Cambridge University Press
