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[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 95 points 2 months ago (3 children)

When you can have everything, what you want most is what you are not allowed to have.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forbidden_fruit_is_the_sweetest

forbidden fruit is the sweetest

Etymology

A reference to the story in the Bible in which God tells Adam and Eve not to eat the forbidden fruit, but they are tempted and do so anyway.

Proverb

  • Forbidden things seem more appealing; people desire things more if (or, in some way, because) they can't have them.
[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Or cannot have. Money and even power only gets you so far.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Plus, to get filthy rich in the first place you usually have to be a pretty slimy and immoral person.