Verse 8

⁸For a man who enjoys what is enjoyable there is no other undoing of the understanding, no other strand of passion, than the pride of wealth and of birth and the rest, where there are women, dice and liquor. ⁹It is there that beasts are killed by the pitiless, by men who have not conquered themselves and who take this perishable body to be beyond age and death. ¹⁰Even a body called a god is called worms or dung or ashes at the end. What does a man who harms living beings know of his own good, when hell comes of it? ¹¹Is the body the property of the one who gives it food? Of the one who begot it, or of the mother herself? Of the mother's father, of a stronger man, of a buyer, of fire, or even of a dog?

¹²The body is held in common in this way, and it comes out of the unmanifest and goes back into it. What man of knowledge would take it for his own and kill living things? None but a worthless one.