#counsels

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

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

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

— Woodrow Wilson

#counsels #hasty #heat #judgment #light

Night is the mother of counsels. ↗

— George Herbert

#mother #night

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

— Hesiod

#counsel #counsels #does #evil #him

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

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

— Titus Livius

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Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills. ↗

— Thomas John Barnardo

#disaster #divided #follow #only #opposing

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

#capital #character #character assassination #counsels #dark