For all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare, said a wise man. If so, what happens to excellence when we eliminate the difficulty and the rarity?

Everything that is great is as rare to find as it is difficult to do.

"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare." These words which bring to a close Spinoza's masterpiece Ethics, after the manner of Geometry, sum up the experience of a life as rare as it was difficult.

Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.

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.

Needs must it be hard, since it is so seldom found. How would it be possible, if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labour be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.

such cases it is vital to remember that scarce things do not taste or feel or sound or ride or work any better because of their limited availability.

It is hard to do, but the best things in the world do not come easily.

...all that is rare is for the rare.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.