What It Means to be a Gentlemen

Someone drops their wallet, a wo gentle human beings gentlemans gentleman is walking up to a door, and an old peeress is approximateing to\ncross the street. These argon situations in which a humans would squander to help and be the supe- rior man in the dilemma. Although these whitethorn seem like fundamental things that all(prenominal) man should fill out to and help with, in most(prenominal) societies the idea of a valet de chambre is a lot different, and what it takes to be superior has changed throughout the years. In The Analects of Confucius, there ar many re- occurring themes on what it takes to be superior and how Confucius thinks a humanity should act, such as pursuit things that are bigger than himself, staying virtuous, purpose wisdom, and not macrocosm controlled by lust.\nAs part of being superior, Confucius said The world reaches for high things; the small man reaches for debase things.(Huang 146) A true gentleman has to pauperism to reach goals tha t are bigger than himself and not dispirit his standards to decisions that could bring him lower in aliveness. To reach these goals a man must only try and reach for opportunities in his life that only escalate himself in the eyes of eachone. To do so, he must only want to get better every day. A true gentleman would never lower himself in life, and put up with problems that come his way. For the sake of being superior, a man would keep on moving through the lummox times thrown at 2 him and keep escalating himself every day and become greater than anyone could ever think to be possible.\nConfucius also stated If a gentleman is not grave, he exit not be awe-inspiring. If he\nlearns he will not be benighted. He keeps whole-hearted sincerity and truthfulness as his major principals and does not bind those beneath him. When he makes a mistake, he is not afraid(predicate) to correct it. (Huang 48) The quotes explains many aspects that a man must have to be consid- ered superior. T he superior man must be estimable in order to start the people he is in a higher place so he bunghole receive the respect he des...