“All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.”
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“To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.”
Source: The First Step (1892), Ch. VII
short quotes, 31 October 1966; p. 58
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.”
“In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
In terra di ciechi chi vi ha un occhio è signore.
Act III, scene ix
The Mandrake (1524)
“In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
In regione caecorum rex est luscus.
Adagia (first published 1500, with numerous expanded editions through 1536), III, IV, 96
Also in the same passage of the Adagia is a variant: Inter caecos regnat strabus (Among the blind, the squinter rules).