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;Life before death
: The Radiant
;Strength before weakness
:All men are weak at some time in their lives
;Journey before destination
:The ends don't justify the means. There are always several ways to achieve a goal. Failure is preferable to winning through unjust means. Protecting ten innocents is not worth killing one. In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.
It should be noted that the Oaths are about each individual Radiant and his or her [[spren]]'s perception of them and,{{book ref|sa3|121}} since Teft was not a Radiant when he explained the Ideal to Kaladin, he may not have realized the extent of the room for variation in interpreting the First Ideal. Furthermore, as he eventually becomes a [[Order of Windrunners|Windrunner]], his explanation of the First Ideal likely hews closer to how that Order would interpret it. Notably, the [[Order of Skybreakers]] and the [[Order of Elsecallers]] would accept a more Machiavellian interpretation of the First Ideal and the Elsecallers in particular view the "journey" as that of the entire species.{{wob ref|2525}}{{wob ref|4163}}
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