COUNSEL

Bacon, Francis
The kingdom of Israel was first rent and broken by ill counsel; upon which there are set, for our instruction, the two marks whereby bad counsel is ever best discerned—that it was young counsel for the persons, and violent counsel for the matter.

In counsel it is good to see dangers; but in execution, not to see them unless they be very great.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.

Balguy, John
Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to hearken unto counsel; whereas the foolish man, being, in proportion to his folly, full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for the very reason that it is his own.

Clarendon, Edward Hyde
Counsel and conversation are a second education, which improve all the virtue, and correct all the vice of the first, and of nature itself.

Fuller, Thomas
Good counsels observed, are chains to grace, which, neglected, prove halters to strange, undutiful children.

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself.—His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.