beau ideals, classics, exemplars, ideals, ideas, models, nonesuches, nonpareils, paragons, patron saints

role modelsembodiments, epitomes, incarnations, manifestations, personifications, phantoms, pinksarchetypes, examples, mirrors, paradigms, patternsguidelines, principles, rulesgauges(also gages), standards, touchstonesessences, quintessencesacmes, apexes(or apices), apotheoses, culminations, peaks, pinnacles, summits, zeniths