“Do not try to irritate me. I am but the instrument of a higher Power, used to enlighten you. Insult fate and it will revenge itself, well knowing how. I merely interpret its moves. Do not fling at me the wrath which will recoil on yourself, for you can not visit on me the woes of which I am the sinister herald.”

— Alessandro Cagliostro

Balsamo the Magician (or The Memoirs of a Physician) by Alex. Dumas (1891)

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Italian occultist 1743–1795

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