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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Ovid
Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
Usher Raymond
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark Twain
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
Amy Tan
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Ovid 
78% of people like this quote
Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
Usher Raymond
73% of people like this quote
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
68% of people like this quote
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark Twain
66% of people like this quote
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
Amy Tan
63% of people like this quote
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Tryon Edwards
61% of people like this quote
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
Muqtada al Sadr
59% of people like this quote
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Mark Twain
59% of people like this quote
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
Johann Arndt
58% of people like this quote
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