A counsel or a counselor gives advice, more particularly in legal matters.
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Famous quotes containing the word counsel:
“Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 11:14.
“It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)