A lifetime is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
Quoted in The Beginning of All Wisdom : Timeless Advice from the Ancient Greeks - 2003 by Steven Stavropoulos, p. 95.
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
Quoted in Fragments - 2001 translated by Brooks Haxton.
Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
Quoted in The Art and Thought of Heraclitus - 1979 translated by Charles H. Kahn.
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
On the Universe - Fragment 41; Quoted by Plato in Cratylus.
It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
Quoted by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics, Book III.
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
On the Universe - Fragment 98 - translated by Philip Wheelwright.
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
On the Universe - Fragment 2; Quoted by Sextus Empiricus in Against the Mathematicians.
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
On the Universe - Fragment 108.