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Moiraine Damodred
(15 October 1993)

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

Source: 1960s, "Specific Objects," 1965, p. 77. Partly quoted in: Washington Gallery of Modern Art (Washington, D.C.), ‎Barbara Rose (1967) New aesthetic: Exhibition May 6-June 25, 1967. p. 45
Context: A work needs only to be interesting. Most works finally have one quality. In earlier art the complexity was displayed and built the quality. In recent painting the complexity was in the format and the few main shapes, which had been made according to various interests and problems. A painting by Newman is finally no simpler than one by Cezanne. In the three-dimensional work the whole thing is made according to complex purposes, and these are not scattered but asserted by one form. It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality as a whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.

Source: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"
Context: Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

ἐν παντὶ πράγει δ᾽ ἔσθ᾽ ὁμιλίας κακῆς
κάκιον οὐδέν
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 599–600 (tr. David Grene)

Fragment xix.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92, 44 N.E. 1077, 1080 (1896) (Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Holmes dissenting).
1890s

As quoted by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics, Book II (1105a)

Remarks by President Obama and President Aquino III of the Philippines during a State Dinner at Malacanang Palace in Manila, Philippines on April 28, 2014 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/28/remarks-president-obama-and-president-aquino-iii-philippines-state-dinne
2014
Context: There is no greater nobility than offering one’s life to the nation and, Mr. President, your father offered his life so that this nation might be free.

The World (1629)

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter Five, Accidental Capitalists, p. 108

Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 9 “A Moral Dilemma” (p. 146).

Quoted in the Boston Sports Review, Media Special, in which he was ranked the top print writer.
Unsourced

Original: Mieux vaut faire, et se repentir / Que se repentir, et rien faire
Source: Quatrains, LXXVIII

Section 2, member 3, subsection 12, Covetousness, a Cause.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

Frag. 6, as quoted in Handy-book of Literary Curiosities (1892) by William Shepard Walsh, p. 1009.

"The Book of Job: An introduction" (1907)

Maxim 528
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave