"# For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle. (G.T.W. Patrick, 1889)"

"# The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle."

"Τίς γὰρ αὐτῶν νόος ἢ φρήν; [δήμων] ἀοιδοῖσι ἕπονται καὶ διδασκάλῳ χρέωνται ὁμίλῳ, οὐκ εἰδότες ὅτι πολλοὶ κακοὶ ὀλίγοι δὲ ἀγαθοί. αἱρεῦνται γὰρ ἓν ἀντία πάντων οἱ ἄριστοι, κλέος ἀέναον θνητῶν, οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ κεκόρηνται ὅκωσπερ κτήνεα."

"# Martin Heidegger, Parmenides (1942–1943)"

"# See also: πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι, πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς"

"#* Lucianus, Quomodo hist. conscrib. 2; Idem, Icaromen 8."

"#* Compare Chrysippus from Philodem. P. eusebeias, vii. p. 81, Gomperz."

"#* Proclus in Tim. 54 A (comp. 24 B)."

"#* Plutarch, de Iside 48, p. 370. Context, see frag. 43."

"#* Hippolytus, Ref. haer. ix. 9 (Fragment 53). Context: "And that the father of all created things is created and uncreated, the made and the maker, we hear him (Heraclitus) saying, 'War is the father and king of all,' etc.""

"# War is the father and king of all, and has produced some as gods and some as men, and has made some slaves and some free. (G. T. W. Patrick, 1889)"

"# War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free."

"Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς, καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεοὺς ἔδειξε τοὺς δὲ ἀνθρώπους, τοὺς μὲν δούλους ἐποίησε τοὺς δὲ ἐλευθέρους."

"χρὴ γὰρ εὖ μάλα πολλῶν ἴστορας φιλοσόφους ἄνδρας εἶναι"

"#* As quoted in The Art and Thought of Heraclitus (1979) translated by Charles H. Kahn"

"# Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child."

"#* A free translation, as quoted in Fragments (2001) translated by Brooks Haxton"

"# Time is a game played beautifully by children."

"#* As quoted in The Beginning of All Wisdom: Timeless Advice from the Ancient Greeks (2003) by Steven Stavropoulos, p. 95"

"# A lifetime is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child."

"#* A very free translation, as quoted in Contemporary Literature in Translation (1976), p. 21"

"# History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world."

"#* Using English idioms to parallel the original's wordplay."

"# The Cosmos is child's play: a child playing chess as King."

"αἰὼν παῖς ἐστι παίζων, πεσσεύων· παιδὸς ἡ βασιληίη."

"τὴν μεταβολὴν ὁδὸν ἄνω κάτω, τόν τε κόσμον γίνεσθαι κατ' αὐτήν."

"χαλεπώτερον ἡδονῇ μάχεσθαι ἢ θυμῷ"

"δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης."

"πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει"