What is the origin of the proverb ‘In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is King’?
What is the origin of the proverb ‘In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is King’?
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Desiderius Erasmus,
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
– Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (III, IV, 96)
Dutch author, philosopher, & scholar (1466 – 1536)
Curious that “Pandora’s box” was also coined by the same person.
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6 years ago
Reference to dick.
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