"On prouve tout ce qu'on veut, et la vraie difficulté est de savoir ce qu'on veut prouver."
— Émile Chartier

January 1, 1970

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Variant translation: "We prove anything we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove."—Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 15th ed. (1980) p. 724