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• Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800
• Conscience -- Early works to 1800
• Good and evil -- Early works to 1800
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• Social ethics -- Early works to 1800
• Virtue -- Early works to 1800

• 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)
• Gorgias (New York: Liberal Arts Press, c1952), by Plato, trans. by W. C. Helmbold (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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 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
• 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)

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

• 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 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
• 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
• 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)

• The Doctor and Student: or, Dialogues Between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student in the Laws of England, Containing the Grounds of Those Laws, Together With Questions and Cases Concerning the Equity Thereof (with two added pieces on suits in chancery by subpoena; Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1874), by Christopher Saint German, ed. by William Muchall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Sancti Aureli Augustini Contra Academicos Libri Tres; De Beata Vita Liber Unus; De Ordine Libri Duo (in Latin; Vienna and Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky A. G., 1922), by Saint Augustine of Hippo, ed. by Pius Knöll
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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