In regione caecorum rex est luscus / In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king - Erasmus

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In regione caecorum rex est luscus / In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king

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Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (27 October 1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch philosopher, humanist and theologian.

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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
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George Bernard Shaw Jean-Jacques Rousseau Voltaire Michel de Montaigne Molière

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In fact this type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evil of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind
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