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.
Surely the first step toward sound deliberation is not to have reached a decision before you have heard the discussions upon which you should base your decision.
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.
If, then, you on your part are now convinced of these truths, I think that I on my part shall seem justified in speaking briefly in opposition and be found to propose the plans that are best 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?