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Alessandro Cagliostro
27 quotes
“I cannot speak. Some things must not be told to princes... My wizard is worn out... Nothing is to follow but the gold turning into dry leaves, as in the Arabian tale.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your highness shall know your fate, since your blindness drives you to it... Let her hear, for since she wanted to know, know she shall!”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is it fault of mine that truth is so awful as to produce such effects? Did I seek out the princess, and beg to be presented to her? No, I was avoiding her, when they almost dragged me before her, and she ordered me to answer her interrogation.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She saw it in the gap which I tore in the veil over the future. That future which has appeared so awful to your royal highness that you have fled into a cloister to wrestle against it at the altar with tears and prayers.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is it fault of mine, I say, if this future, revealed to you as a holy woman, should be shown to me as a precursor; and if the dauphiness, alarmed at the fate personally threatening her, swooned when it loomed upon her? For her reign is doomed as the most fatal and unfortunate of the entire monarchy.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perchance your prayers will earn your grace, but then you will see nothing of what comes to pass, as you will rest in the arms of the angels. Pray, lady; continue to pray!”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Alas, is it your fault, or that of the Creator? Why were you made the angel with the infallible gaze, by whose aid I should make the universe submit? Why is it that you are the one to read a soul through its bodily envelope as one may read a book through a glass! Because you are an angel of purity, Lorenza, and nothing throws a shadow upon your soul. In your radiant and immaculate bosom the divine spark may be enshrined, a place without sullying where it may fitly nestle. You are a seer because you are blameless, Lorenza.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What are you saying—and you a Christian woman? Is your creed which bids you return good for evil but a hypocrisy, that you pretend to follow it, and you boast of revenge—evil for good?”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heaven forgets, or tolerates—waiting for you to reform”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mark this, my child, that I have tried to have this place fit for a queen, with nothing lacking for your comfort. So calm your folly. Live here as you would do in your convent cell.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The kinder, more patient and attentive you are, the more of your bars I will remove, so that in some months—who knows how soon?—you will become perhaps more free than I am, in the sense that you will not want to curtail my liberty.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once for all I beg you to lay aside this pack of puerile beliefs brought from Rome, and all the rubbish of absurd superstitions which you have carted about with you since you ran away from the nunnery. Indeed, a nunnery is much to be deplored.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is little loss. I let the boiling go on the hundredth of a minute too long. Trifles are enormous in the hermetical art, but anyway, here are two crucibles empty and two ingots cast, and they amount to a hundred weight of fine gold.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your highness is forgetting that I see as clearly in your heart what is going on now as I saw your carriage coming from the Carmelite convent, traversing the town and stopping under the trees fifty paces off from my house.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are right not to meet my glance, my lord, for then I see into your heart too clearly. It is a mirror which retains the image which it has reflected.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The people will rise, and at last royalty will have arrayed against it philosophy, which is intelligence, Parliament, which is the middle class, and the mob, which is the people; in other words, the lever with which Archimedes can raise the world.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Balsamo walked over to the elevator, and with a stamp of the foot, caused it to carry him down to the other floor. Mute, crushed by the genius of this wizard, he was forced to believe in impossible things by his doing them.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I arrived at Dover... Well-intentioned people had warned the customs authorities of my arrival and of the nature of the effects I brought with me; so my trunks were emptied...and each thing they contained was unfolded and scrutinized with the most minute exactitude.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Finding this quiet appropriation of my property a little too much, I took the liberty to ask for their return; they gravely replied that my diamond and other jewels were confiscated to the profit of Great Britain I returned sadly to my inn... I resigned myself, however, and slept the most profound sleep. I do not know what passed during the night; but the next morning, when I returned to the Custom House, I found the greatest change in manners and faces. The customs authorities spoke to me in the most respectful tone. They made a million excuses and gave me back my jewel box...”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now, my enemies think I am crushed. They have said to one another ‘let us trample under foot this man who knows us too well’; but they do not know that in spite of their efforts I shall rise triumphant, when the time of trial is over. They rejoice in the wounds they have inflicted upon me; but these foolish people in their mad transports do not see hovering over them the cloud from which the lightning will dart.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh that the truly terrible example I have just put before their eyes, provoking in their hearts a salutary repentance, might save me the grief of having to lament their fate! Let them recognize their errors! Let them make one simple step toward justice, and my lips will open only to bless them.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not know whether my enemies will reply to me, or adopt the role of silence. Whatever they may do I declare to them that this letter will be my only reply to all their calumnies, past, present or future; and I give my word of honor to the public that whatsoever they may say or do, I shall not write a single line more in my justification. (Postscriptum)”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I amuse myself, not by making people believe what I wish, but by letting them believe what they wish. These fools of Parisians declare that I am five hundred, and I confirm them in the idea since it pleases them.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I quitted the Bastille, about half-past eleven in the evening. The night was dark, the quarter in which I resided but little frequented. What was my surprise, then, to hear myself acclaimed by eight or ten thousand persons. My door was forced open; the courtyard, the staircase, the rooms were crowded with people. I was carried straight to the arms of my wife.”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A torrent of tears streamed from my eyes, and I was able at last, without dying, to press to my heart...”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, you privileged beings to whom heaven has made the rare and fatal gift of an ardent soul and a sensitive heart, you who have experienced the delights of a first love, you alone will understand me, you alone will appreciate what after ten months of torture the first moment of bliss is like!”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source