For nobility, forbiddenness itself constitutes a social privilege rather than a burden

Evidence

If the non-noble wishes, he may make the same renunciations, but that bears no relation to this social position; it is an irrelevant private affair. But for the nobility, it is social duty to be forbidden many things; or more correctly it is the nobility’s privilege. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 496

Categorization

• XREF: Reversing prohibition into privilege inverts the intuitive economics of constraint — a formal inversion paralleling Simmel’s structural approach throughout. — connects to: Knightly societies equated dignity with person-to-person service — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 350

Related

• Nobiliary status runs both ways, forbidding what is allowed to others (similarity 0.86)
• Knightly societies equated dignity with person-to-person service (similarity 0.80)