Évariste Galois

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

What we think, we become.

There is no beauty without some strangeness.

The human condition is a state of constant flux.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Death is the end of a chapter, not the end of the book.

The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

You will publicly beg the patriots to forgive me for having used a saber to defend principles for which they are ready to die.

I have made new discoveries in mathematics. Some concern the theory of equations; others integral functions.

You know, my dear Auguste, that I am not a braggart.

I beg you to print this letter in the Revue encyclopédique.

I have often dared to advance propositions which I knew to be false, in order to see if I could be refuted.

The theory of groups is, so to speak, the essence of all mathematics.

I have no time to be clear; I have no time to develop my ideas.

I have discovered a general method for resolving all equations of any degree.