A counsel or a counselor gives advice, more particularly in legal matters.
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Famous quotes containing the word counsel:
“Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.”
—Silius Italicus (26–101)
“But thus I counsel you, my friends: mistrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is strong!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 11:14.