Practicing the virtues expressed in the Tao Te Ching is not for appearances, recognition, or validation. These are actions that are a way of making life significant and benefit others without judgement or need for reciprocity. This is the nature of humility, a core virtue expressed in the Tao Te Ching. In an episode of Ancient Greece Declassified, “The Hunt for Justice: Plato’s Republic, book 1,”…