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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
Knowledge
Sir John Denham

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Age and Aging
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Pleasure
Moliere

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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Desire
Ovid

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That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
Metaphysics
Boris Pasternak

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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Modesty
Seneca

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Forbidden things have a secret charm.
Scarcity
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Charm
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun