"If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family."
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"Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him."
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"I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future."
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"Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves."
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"To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened."
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"It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient."
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"Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers."
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"The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused."
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