(noun) A scarce or uncommon item.
"Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger."
"Love is rare, love is strange, nothing lasts and people change."
"The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns."
"We are rarely proud when we are alone."
"The true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things."
"Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."
"A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred."
"I'm so private that my own family rarely knows me."