Pierre Charron Quote

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

As quoted in Treasury of Thought : Forming an encyclopædia of quotation from ancient and modern authors (1894) edited by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 123

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with...

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with...

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with...

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with...