King Alfred the Great (King of Wessex, r. 871-899, and leader of the Anglo-Saxon world during the late 9th-century Viking invasions of Britain)
"Wisdom, humility, caution, moderation, justice, mercy, discretion, constancy, benevolence, chastity and temperance. With these anchors you should fix in God the cable so that it will hold the ship of your mind."
- From Alfred the Great's loose and expanded Old English translation of St. Augustine's Soliloquies, translated to modern English by Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge (Penguin Classics, 2004).
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