1 He took one more step, and without taking aim, pressed the spring.
2 He was free, he had nothing but his aim to consider, and he reached it.
3 The Frenchman also stopped and took aim.
4 He firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how Freemasonry presented itself to him.
5 Now I must disclose to you the chief aim of our Order," he said, "and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our Brotherhood with profit.
6 Our aim is no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to avoid General Buxhowden who by right of seniority should be our chief.
7 So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhowden.
8 You say: join our brotherhood and we will show you the aim of life, the destiny of man, and the laws which govern the world.
9 This aim was that of Christianity itself.
10 Only to this aim can we always strive independently of circumstances.
11 But if I forgive her for the sake of doing right, then let union with her have only a spiritual aim.
12 Though, by this course, neither one aim nor the other could be attained, yet it seemed best to the adherents of this third party.
13 To understand the laws of this continuous movement is the aim of history.
14 The French army pushed on to Moscow, its goal, its impetus ever increasing as it neared its aim, just as the velocity of a falling body increases as it approaches the earth.
15 In her view the aim of every religion was merely to preserve certain proprieties while affording satisfaction to human desires.