Good Counsel
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
good counsel · good counsellor · sound proposal · the best advice
in the texts
Exordia
The abstract standard of genuinely beneficial advice that the speaker repeatedly claims to offer and urges the Assembly to seek out and adopt, regardless of who proposes it.
and so by shouting him down when displeased you may perhaps deprive yourselves of many useful ideas, whereas by attending with decorum and in silence, you will act on every sound proposal, and if you think someone is making a foolish suggestion, you will ignore it.
For while we all understand that through the fault of certain men our affairs are in a bad way, it is the task of your counsellor to suggest by what means they may be improved.
for not only in the event of someone having come here with a useful idea thought out, would you, having listened, have the benefit of it, but I also assume it to be part of your good fortune that many timely suggestions would occur to some men on the spur of the moment, so that from the whole number the choice of the advantageous is made easier for you.
Memorabilia
Sound advice that cannot be ignored without harmful error.
If anyone objected that a despot may refuse to obey a good counsellor, How can he refuse, he would ask, when a penalty waits on disregard of good counsel?