Synonyms for misfortunes
mis·for·tunes

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1. List of paraphrases for "misfortunes":

   woes

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1. William Cobbett:

   Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

2. Virgil:

   Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

3. Edward Gibbon:

   History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

4. Socrates:

   If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

5. Aristotle:

   In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.