in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

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谚语
  1. Even someone with limited abilities or opportunities is dominant over, and considered special by, those who have even fewer abilities and opportunities; the value of any ability depends on its prevalence.
    — Their bread tastes like rock / Joining circles of the dead / As I am drinking all the sewage / Of the damage they call help / In the land of the blind / The one-eyed^([sic]) is a king / He plants in their empty pots / Ugly rotten seeds

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in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king alternative in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king alternative in the city of the blind, the one-eyed man is king alternative in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king alternative

词源

Calque of Latin in regione caecorum rex est luscus, popularized by Desiderius Erasmus’ Adagia (1500). For further origin compare Aramaic בשוק סמייא צווחין לעווירא סגי נהור (literally “in the street of the blind, the one-eyed man is called the guiding light”), found in the Genesis Rabbah (4th or 5th century CE). This may be Erasmus’ direct source, but at least some traditional link between both forms seems likely.
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