Books about Ethics -- Early works to 1800

Plutarch's Morals

De Officiis (Latin)

Gorgias

The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits

Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.

Meno

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Charmides

The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero

Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. I.

Political fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and other ancient Pythagoreans, preserved by Stobæus : and also, Ethical fragments of Hierocles, the celebrated commentator on the Golden Pythagoric Verses, preserved by the same author

Gorgias (Finnish)