“In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
In terra di ciechi chi vi ha un occhio è signore.
Act III, scene ix
The Mandrake (1524)
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot… for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.”
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