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From Tenth of December: Stories, by George Saunders

AS IF

"It was as if I could suddenly discern, in this contemporary vignette, the ancient corollary through which Plato and some of his contemporaries might have strolled; to wit, I was sensing the eternal in the ephemeral."

From Escape from Spiderhead

Clerihew with Sloppy Sutures

ALAIN BADIOU

Alain Badiou,
You'll find, if you
Read his Handbook of Inaesthetics,
Stitches new Platonic Apologetics. 

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From Gorgias, by Plato, translated by Walter Hamilton

SUCH

"Such is your inability to oppose the wishes and statements of those you love that, if surprise were expressed at the strangeness of the things which from time to time they cause you to say, you would probably answer, if you wanted to be truthful, that unless your loves can be stopped from saying these things you will not stop talking as you do."

From 482

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From The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson

AT LAST

"At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping; for he can define."

From Plato, or, the Philosopher

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From Comic Poems, edited by Peter Washington

IN A COPY OF MORE'S (OR SHAW'S OR WELL'S OR PLATO'S OR ANYBODY'S) UTOPIA

So this is Utopia, is it? Well
I beg your pardon, I thought it was Hell.

By Max Beerbohm

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From The Essays of Montaigne, Volume II, translated by E. J. Trenchmann

PLATO SAYS

"Plato says that the man who escapes with clean hands from the management of the world's affairs, escapes by a miracle."

From The Conduct of Public Affairs