A counsel or a counselor gives advice, more particularly in legal matters.
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Famous quotes containing the word counsel:
“It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“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 of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)