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morality

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The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.

The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.

The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics.

The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.

A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII.

Intent; meaning; moral.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant

Compassion is the basis of morality. Arthur Schopenhauer

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. H. L. Mencken

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. Joseph Addison

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. Graham Greene

The stingy has a big porch and little morality. Arabic Proverb

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