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    The Atlas·Ideas

    Gentleman

    idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages

    gentleman · beautiful · beautiful as well as good · gentlemen · good · true gentlemen

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    The Gentleman“kalokagathia”1 mention

    Memorabilia (Greek)

    try to be good, and when you have achieved that, set about catching your gentleman.
    chapter 2

    in the texts

    EconomicsClassical · Greek

    The gentleman is the socially recognized ideal of being both beautiful and good, associated here with noble husbandry and practical virtue.

    So I decided to let good looks alone, and to seek out someone known as a gentleman.
    chapter 6
    I should greatly like to hear it, Socrates, for I long to deserve that title myself.
    chapter 6
    Accordingly, since I heard the name applied to Ischomachus by men, women, citizens and strangers alike, I decided to meet him, if I could.
    chaper xix the runaway plot

    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    The idea of the kalos kagathos, the honorable and capable "gentleman," whose virtue is both the precondition for true friendship and something achieved through study and practice rather than possessed by birth or claimed falsely.

    try to be good, and when you have achieved that, set about catching your gentleman.
    chapter 2
    You will find on reflection that every kind of virtue named among men is increased by study and practice.
    chapter 2
    But, again, it is equally clear that anyone who goes to war will need allies, and more of them if he is to fight an army of gentlemen.
    chapter 2