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In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

In regione caecorum rex est luscus.

Original text (Latin)

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Notes from Wikiquote

Also in the same passage of the Adagia is a variant: Inter caecos regnat strabus (Among the blind, the squinter rules).

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