To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. (goodreads.com)
The code proper ends with t: he strange injunction, 9 which sounds to modern ears neither moral nor religious, «You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk,» and is followed immediately by the renewal of the covenant. (religion-online.org)
A usurping science would work to order all the other sciences to its own end, which, while stabilizing them temporarily, would ruin them by turning them away from their own proper ends. (firstthings.com)