Lucas

“Tell me, Nagasawa,” I asked, “what is the ‘standard of action’ in your life?” “You’ll laugh if I tell you,” he said. “No I won’t.” “All right,” he said. “‘To be a gentleman.’” I didn’t laugh, but I nearly fell off my chair. “‘To be a gentleman’? A gentleman?” “You heard me.” “What does it mean to be a gentleman? How do you define it?” “A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do but what he should do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood