Verse 19

¹⁹From laying merit upon the things of sense a man's clinging comes; out of clinging comes desire for them; and out of desire alone comes quarrelling among men. ²⁰From quarrelling comes anger that is hard to bear, and darkness follows on anger. By darkness the awareness of a man, which spreads through the whole of him, is quickly swallowed. ²¹Bereft of that, good man, a creature is as good as empty. Then his own good is lost to him, as it is lost to one who has fainted, and to one who is dead. ²²Sunk in the things of sense, he knows neither himself nor anything else. Living the life of a tree, he breathes to no purpose, like a bellows.