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Lao Tzu's teaching, like Socrates', rejects authority; but Confucius', like Plato's, reveres it. Each attitude has its correctness, depending upon historical or local circumstances; but for most individuals an equilibrium between them seems best.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 310