Mencius. Book VII: Tsin Sin. Part II. Chapter X.
Legge's summary: Corrupt times are provided against by established virtue.
Mencius said, 'A bad year cannot prove the cause of death to him whose stores of gain are large; an age of corruption cannot confound him whose equipment of virtue is complete.'
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