philosophical quotes in 'Billions' TV Show

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Not everyone would get ‘Billions’, but it is a two season story of a NY DA trying to nail a hedgefund company mastermind.

during almost every episode, dialog between two folks includes appropriate short quotes from various philosophers. sometimes a character will say that the other person’s statemnt or attitude is much in line with Freud, or Sinosa, or Kant, or whatever. Every capitalist, lawyer and doctor in the show seems extremely well versed in classical philosophy, IMHO.

I’m wondering, perhaps, whether anyone has compiled a full catalog of those quotes, who said them, in what context?

Or should I write to the writers and ask for a full accounting?

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Not, for example Axe Axelrod’s quote “What’s the use of having ‘fuck-you’ money if you never say ‘fuck you!’”

Or, “Walking into a room as a Billionaire is like a woman walking into a room with a perfect set of tits.”

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Interesting! Can you give a couple of examples?

This is the sort of richness TV should engage in a little more often. (And, yeah, the coarse quotes are fun too. There’s plenty of room for both!)

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ISTR a quote from Miyamoto Musashi’s Book of Five Rings, but can’t recal what on.

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I recall one where Giamatti (DA), after being unsuccessful in a scheme to catch Axe paying off cops to hush up an associate’s crazed attack by automatic weapon on dear on his grounds, frustratedly states something like “I’ve reached the point where I have nothing left to lose. You don’t want to fuck with a man who has nothing left to lose.” Not quite accurate, but close enough.

Many years ago, I wrote a ‘no one ever saw it’ novel in which a widow who had to move out of her comfortable life into one where she had to struggle to feed herself and her only daughter (and didn’t do badly at it) said, when asked about that time in her life…something like “Folks sometimes mistake having your back against the wall and nowhere to go as ‘dogged determination’. From the outside, it looks just the same.”