#rarer

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#commoner #everyone #fool #friend #himself

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. ↗

— William Slim

#higher #moral #moral courage #physical #physical courage

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. ↗

— Charles Peguy

#genius #itself #love #love is #rarer

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#love #rare #rarer #true #true friendship

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#circle #experience #find #happy #happy person

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#among #considered #desert #destitute #find

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#far #finer #more #much #rarer

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#great #great man #great men #greatness #his

I eat meat, the rarer the better. ↗

— Dominique Swain

#eat #i #meat #rarer

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ↗

— Robert Half

#more #much #rarer #recognize #scarce