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• On Modesty, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

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• Challenging Children to Chastity: A Parental Guide (c1991), by Henry V. Sattler (HTML at EWTN)
• An Address Delivered to Married Women, by a Squire's Wife (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, ca. 1872), by Victoria Welby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• On Exhortation to Chastity, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• The Coiled Serpent: A Philosophy of Conservation and Transmutation of Reproductive Energy (Los Angeles: DeVorss and Co., c1939), by C. J. Van Vliet (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Address Delivered by the Hon. Mrs. Welby to the Married Women of Newton, on the First Thursday in Lent, 1872 (printed for private circulation only; London: Metchim and Son, 1872), by Victoria Welby (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Appeal to Mothers, by Ellen G. White (HTML with commentary at ellenwhiteexposed.com)

• Comus, A Mask, by John Milton (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• Measure for Measure (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• Milton's Comus (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891), by John Milton, ed. by William Bell (Gutenberg text)

• Stories from the Faerie Queene, by Mary Macleod, contrib. by Edmund Spenser and John W. Hales, illust. by Arthur G. Walker (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Self-Conflict: or, The Powerful Motions Between the Flesh and Spirit, Represented in the Person and Upon the Occasion of Joseph When by Potiphar's Wife he was Enticed to Adultery (London: Printed for R. Sollers, 1680), by Jacob Cats, trans. by John Quarles (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Opuscoli Morali di Leon Batista Alberti (in Italian; Venice: Appresso Francesco Franceschi, Sanese, 1568), by Leon Battista Alberti, ed. by Cosimo Bartoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three Discourses of Happiness, Virtue, and Liberty, Collected From the Works of the Learn'd Gassendi (London: Printed for Awnsham and J. Churchil, 1699), by Pierre Gassendi, ed. by François Bernier (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Treatise of Morall Phylosophie, Contayning the Sayings of the Wyse (London: E. Whitchurche, 1547)
  • negative page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• Gorgias (New York: Liberal Arts Press, c1952), by Plato, trans. by W. C. Helmbold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tragedies, Gathered by Ihon Bochas, of All Such Princes as Fell From Theyr Estates Throughe the Mutability of Fortune Since the Creacion of Adam (this copy appears to have the title page of "A Memorial of Suche Princes", a related suppressed publication, rather than this work's intended title page; London: J. Wayland, ca. 1554), by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by John Lydgate, contrib. by William Baldwin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Charmides, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Charmides, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
• The Critique of Practical Reason, by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• De Officiis, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by Walter Miller (HTML at stoics.com)
• The Distichs of Cato: A Famous Medieval Textbook, trans. by Wayland Johnson Chase (multieple formats at archive.org)
• Eudemian Ethics, by Aristotle (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• Gorgias, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Gorgias, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
• Groundlaying: Kant's Search for the Highest Principle of Morality (German editions and English translations of Kants's Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, with commentary), by Immanuel Kant, ed. by Stephen Orr (multiple formats with commentary at appspot.com)
• The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics, by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. D. Ross
  • HTML with chapter headings at nothingistic.org
  • PDF at McMaster
• Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, trans. by H. Rackham (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, Newly Translated into English (third edition; London: Longmans, Green, 1879), by Aristotle, trans. by Robert Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1898), by Plutarch, ed. by A. R. Shilleto (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Plutarch's Morals: Theosophical Essays (London: George Bell and Sons, 1908), by Plutarch, trans. by C. W. King (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Sayings of the Wise, or, Food for Thought: A Book of Moral Wisdom, Gathered From the Ancient Philosophers (London: E. Stock, 1908), by William Baldwin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated; With a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (3 volumes; London: T. Tegg, 1845), by Ralph Cudworth, trans. by John Harrison, contrib. by Johann Lorenz Mosheim
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
• Ad Lucilium Epistolae Morales (in Latin and English; 3 volumes; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1918-1925), by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, trans. by Richard M. Gummere
  • Volume I (introduction, and letters 1-65); multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (letters 66-92); multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (letters 93-124, with appendices and indexes); multiple formats at archive.org
• The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1887), by Immanuel Kant, trans. by W. Hastie (HTML and PDF files at libertyfund.org)
• Protagoras, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Protagoras, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)

• The Conferences of John Cassian, by John Cassian, trans. by Edgar C. S. Gibson (HTML with commentary at osb.org)

• The Legacy of a Dying Mother to Her Mourning Children: Being the Experiences of Mrs. Susanna Bell, Who Died March 13, 1672 (London: J. Hancock Sr. and Jr., 1673), by Susanna Bell, contrib. by Thomas Brooks (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Letters From a Father to His Son, on Various Topics, Relative To Literature and the Conduct of Life, Written in the years 1792 and 1793 (Philadelphia: Printed by S. H. Smith, 1794), by John Aikin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Theatrum Vitae Humanae (in Latin; Metz: A. Fabri, 1596), by Jean Jacques Boissard, illust. by Theodor de Bry
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Young Grandison: A Series of Letters From Young Persons to Their Friends, Translated From the Dutch of Madame de Cambon, With Alterations and Improvements (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1790), by Madame de Cambon, ed. by Mary Wollstonecraft, trans. by John Hall
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Christophori Landini Florentini Libri Quattuor: Primus de Vita Activa et Contemplativa; Secundus de Summo Bono; Tertius et Quartus in Publij Virgilij Maronis Allegorias (4 books in Latin (book 1 also known as Disputationes Camaldulenses), bound in a larger set of early printed books; 1508), by Cristoforo Landino (page images in Germany)
• The English Gentleman: Containing Sundry Excellent Rules or Exquisite Observations, Tending to Direction of Every Gentleman, of Selecter Ranke and Qualitie; How to Demeane or Accommodate Himselfe in the Manage of Publike or Private Affaires (London: Printed by J. Haviland, 1630), by Richard Brathwaite, illust. by Robert Vaughan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Government of the Tongue (second impression, 1674), by Richard Allestree (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• The Government of the Tongue (third impression; 1675), by Richard Allestree
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Honestie of This Age: Proving by Good Circumstance that the World was Never Honest Till Now (London: Reprinted for the Percy Society by T. Richards, 1844), by Barnabe Rich, ed. by Peter Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ad Lucilium Epistolae Morales (in Latin and English; 3 volumes; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1918-1925), by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, trans. by Richard M. Gummere
  • Volume I (introduction, and letters 1-65); multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (letters 66-92); multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (letters 93-124, with appendices and indexes); multiple formats at archive.org
• The Doctrine of the Mean, by Confucius, trans. by James Legge (HTML at nothingistic.org)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di (HTML at Internet Classics)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di, trans. by James Ross (HTML at Fordham)
• The Gulistan of Sa'di, by Sa'di, trans. by Edward Rehatsek (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• On Benefits, by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, trans. by Aubrey Stewart (Gutenberg text)
• Some Fruits of Solitude (includes More Fruits of Solitude), by William Penn
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Whistle: Extract From a Letter Written by Franklin to Madame Brillon November, 1779 (Boston: Brad Stephens and Co., c1921), by Benjamin Franklin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Some Rules and Orders for the Government of the House of an Earle (London: Printed for R. Triphook, 1821), by Richard Brathwaite
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• De Amicitia; Scipio's Dream, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. by Andrew P. Peabody (Gutenberg text)
• Early Religion: or, The Way for a Young Man to Remember His Creator Proposed in a Sermon Preach'd Upon the Death of Mr. Robert Linager, a Young Gentleman, Who Left This World, Octob. 26, 1682; With an Account of Some Passages of His Life and Death (London: Printed for J. Robinson and J. Dunton, 1683), by Timothy Rogers, contrib. by Edward Veel (HTML and EEBO TCP)
• The Enchiridion, by Epictetus, trans. by Elizabeth Carter (HTML at Internet Classics)
• The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, by Epictetus, trans. by Hastings Crossley (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes, by Epictetus, trans. by Hastings Crossley (Gutenberg text)

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