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Morality: society's agreement on what is 'right' and 'wrong'
Ethics: rules or principles guiding behavior, doesn't refer to society as a whole, often a code adopted by professional groups, possessed by individuals and entities within societies.
Ethics are not necessarily compatible with morality and do not necessarily address societal concepts of virtue and vice.
Another nice definition, which I prefer, has
Morality: rules a person wants to follow.
Ethics: rules a person wants others to follow.
Law: rules a person is willing to force others to follow.
...but no one but me uses those, either. Ah, well.