Etiquette (Fr.: bonton, appropriate behaviour), a set of rules on refined (hospitable, polite) conduct in the company of others. These rules, which vary in different social environments and are constantly subject to change, regulate for example the form of greeting, encountering and addressing persons of various age, status, sex; table manners and the use of cutlery; dress-codes; forms of correspondence; manners of congratulating others or expressing condolence, etc. A number of strict rules of refined (gallant) conduct have been rejected in recent times as prejudices and anachronisms. Since the Baroque era, the rules of elegant conduct have often been formulated in special books
called The Book of Etiquette." (Brozović, Ed., 1999:233) The great philosophers paid special attention to ethics, honesty and fairness in their life and work, and taught other people that these are permanent values that should be cultivated, respected and applied