Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Claude Adrien Helvetius

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
Akhenaton

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Titus Livius

Night is the mother of counsels.
George Herbert

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.
Thomas John Barnardo

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
Hesiod

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.
Emanuel Celler