Rare Quotes

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine

Love, Friendship, True

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain

Courage, Moral, Common

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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Juvenal

Beauty, Union, Purity

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity, Rule, Nations

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity, Rule, Nations

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness, Rule, Nations

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Death, Saying

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David Thoreau

Done, Speak, Write

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson

Truth, Today, Past

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais Nin

Human, Precious, Contact

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Friendship, True

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Coco Chanel

Cannot, Create, Stronger

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Victor Hugo

Truth, Beautiful, Rise

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
Aldous Huxley

Else, Cease, Solemn

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson

Truth, Tell, Delightful

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo

Good, Great, History

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
Rene Descartes

Men, Perfect, Numbers

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Women, Find

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
Douglas Adams

Mind, Thought, Fact

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Power, True, Getting

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Zhuangzi

Beautiful, May, Ugly

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass

Advantage, Slave, Slaves

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France

Art, Able, Chance

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong

Courage, Dark, Place

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Friendship, Poetry, Real

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
James Russell Lowell

Perfect, Days, June

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Life, Love, Romantic

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
Homer

Beauty, Wisdom, Youth

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
Christina Aguilera

Deep, Find, Enough

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