"Þæt is nū hraðost to seċġenne þæt iċ wilnode weorðfullīċe to libbenne þā hwīle þe iċ lifde, and æfter mīnum līfe þām mannum tō lǣfanne þe æfter mē wǣren mīn ġemynd on gōdum weorcum."
— Alfred the Great

January 1, 1970

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In short, I wanted to live honorably as long as I lived, and leave behind, for the people who would come after me, the memory of me in good works. — In his translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, ch. 17, p. 133.