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Preserve my memory, since fate has not given me life enough for the country to know my name.

— Évariste Galois

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[This] science is the work of the human mind, which is destined rather to study than to know, to seek the truth rather than to find it.

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Don't cry, Alfred! I need all my courage to die at twenty.

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Il parait après cela qu'il n'y a aucun fruit à tirer de la solution que nous proposons. [It seems there is no fruit to be drawn from the solution we offer.]

... an author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

Mais je n’ai pas le temps et mes idées ne sont pas encore bien développées sur ce terrain qui est immense. [But I don't have the time and my ideas are not yet well developed on this immense terrain.]

It angered Galois sufficiently that he wrote directly below it

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