The one-eyed are kings in the land of the blind.
More French Proverbs:
You always knock yourself on the tenderest places.French
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
French
He's a fool that's fond.
French
Some have fine eyes and can't see a jot.
French
To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man live to ninety-nine.
French
Smoke, floods, and a troublesome wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.
French