Gentleman
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
gentleman · beautiful · beautiful as well as good · gentlemen · good · true gentlemen
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Gentleman“kalokagathia”1 mention
Memorabilia (Greek)
You will find on reflection that every kind of virtue named among men is increased by study and practice.
in the texts
Economics
The gentleman is the socially recognized ideal of being both beautiful and good, associated here with noble husbandry and practical virtue.
but I felt a desire to meet one of those who are called by that grand name gentleman, which implies beautiful as well as good, in order to consider what they did to deserve it.
So I decided to let good looks alone, and to seek out someone known as a gentleman.
We came to the conclusion that for a gentleman the best occupation and the best science is husbandry, from which men obtain what is necessary to them.
Memorabilia
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.
You will find on reflection that every kind of virtue named among men is increased by study and practice.
Surely, then, it is likely that true gentlemen will share public honours too not only without harm to one another, but to their common benefit?
But if a man seeks to be honoured in a state that he may not be the victim of injustice himself and may help his friends in a just cause, and when he takes office may try to do some good to his country, why should he be incapable of union with one like himself?