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I finished my PhD thesis with a quote [0] from Hunter S. Thompson.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/293779-take-it-from-me-ther...



I quoted Cavafy's Ithaka:

"And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean."

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/ithaka-56d22eef...




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