Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

However rare true love is, true friendship is rarer.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Quelque rare que soit le véritable amour, il l’est encore moins que la véritable amitié.

Love is rare,love is strange,nothing lasts and people change.

True love is timid, as it knew its worth,
And that such happiness is scarce for earth.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

As far as I can see, love only brings sorrow.

As Socrates showed, love cannot be anything else but the love of the good. But to find the good is very rare. That is why love is rare, in spite of what people think. It happens to one in a thousand, and to that one it is a revelation. No wonder he cannot communicate with the other nine hundred and ninety-nine.

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.