What is another word for "moral"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "moral": acute, adage, admitted, aesthetic, aesthetics, affectibility, alive, aphorism, aphoristic, apophthegm, apothegm, aromatic, assumption, aware, axiom, axiomatic, behavior, belief, byword, cardinal, cause, chicken, common, commonplace, conclusion, conscious, consciousness, core, credit, cultivate, desert, dictum, die, discharge, duty, enthusiastic, ethics, excellence, excitability, excitable.