Sundiata Quotes

“How few things good fortune prizes!'
Yes, the day you are fortunate is also the day when you are the most unfortunate, for in good fortune you cannot imagine what suffering is.”
― D. T. Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

“Good fortune makes men blind.”
― Djeli Mamoudou Kouyaté

“Kings are only men, and whatever iron cannot achieve against them, words can.”
― Djeli Mamoudou Kouyaté

“You, perhaps, will be a king. You can do nothing about it. You, on the other hand, will be unlucky, but you can do nothing about that either. Each man finds his way already marked out for him and he can change nothing of it.”
― D. T. Niane

“The day you are fortunate is also the day when you are most unfortunate, for in good fortune you cannot imagine what suffering is.”
― Djeli Mamoudou Kouyaté

“Fear enters the heart of him who does not know his destiny, whereas Sundiata knew that he was striding towards a great destiny.”
― Djeli Mamoudou Kouyaté

“The lion has walked.”
― D.T. Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

“He was great among kings, he was peerless among men.”
― D.T. Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

“We are vessels of speech, we are the repositories which harbour secrets many centuries old. The art of eloquence has no secrets for us; without us the names of kings would vanish into oblivion, we are the memory of mankind; by the spoken word we bring to life the deeds and exploits of kings.”
― D.T. Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

“He was great among kings, he was peerless among men.”
― Djibril Tamsir Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

“We are vessels of speech, we are the repositories which harbour secrets many centuries old. The art of eloquence has no secrets for us; without us the names of kings would vanish into oblivion, we are the memory of mankind; by the spoken word we bring to life the deeds and exploits of kings.”
― Djibril Tamsir Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

“The lion has walked.”
― Djibril Tamsir Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

“Modesty is the portion of the average man, but superior men are ignorant of
humility.” - Sundiata”
― Hakim Abol Qasem Ferdowsi Tousi