#rare

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#difficult #excellent #rare #things

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#almost #could #difficult #excellent #found

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America. ↗

— Ben Stein

#allowed #am #america #beings #did

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare! ↗

— Homer

#rare #wisdom #youth

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. ↗

— Rex Stout

#detective #finesse #ingenious #joy #rare

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#hard #men #plan #rare #routine

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#again #captains #commercial #conduct #enterprises

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#pure #rarely #simple #truth #truth is

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#men #numbers #perfect #rare #very

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#majority #minority #rarely #right #wrong