Close enough to a meme anyways. I'm not complaining!

I'd hope the odds would improve when magic is demonstrably real but when you put it like that

Unknown Armies is kind of like this. Most magic requires obsession, and you don't get a lot of well adjusted, friendly, people who also, say, collects all many of coin and money (money is power) but won't spend any (that's giving away your power!)

There's a bunch of schools of magic but they're all built on an obsession and paradox. The book is really well written, too. (At least 2e is. I didn't spend much time with 3e)

Mage: the Ascension in a nutshell