A re malvagio, consiglier peggiore.
Canto II, stanza 2 (tr. Max Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
A re malvagio, consiglier peggiore.
II, 16
Gerusalemme liberata
On St. James's Park; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Letter to Stephen Vaughan.
“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”
“Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all.”
Parallel Lives, Pericles
Jesus, as portrayed in Preface, Difference Between Reader And Spectator
1930s, On the Rocks (1933)
Context: Law is blind without counsel. The counsel men agree with is vain: it is only the echo of their own voices. A million echoes will not help you to rule righteously. But he who does not fear you and shews you the other side is a pearl of the greatest price. Slay me and you go blind to your damnation. The greatest of God's names is Counsellor; and when your Empire is dust and your name a byword among the nations the temples of the living God shall still ring with his praise as Wonderful! Counsellor! the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
“Thou are a better counsellor to others
Than to thyself: I judge by deeds not words.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 335–336 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 29, "The fourfold pattern", pages 318-319 (ISBN 9780141033570).
Epilogue (p. 402)
Culture series, Inversions (1998)
On a panel with R. Scott Bakker in Semana Negra, Spain (2008)
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART II: OTHER WORLDS, Chapter 18. How I came to Spaceland, and What I Saw There
Context: I could see many of the younger Counsellors start back in manifest horror, as the Sphere's circular section widened before them. But on a sign from the presiding Circle — who shewed not the slightest alarm or surprise — six Isosceles of a low type from six different quarters rushed upon the Sphere. "We have him," they cried; "No; yes; we have him still! he's going! he's gone!" "My Lords," said the President to the Junior Circles of the Council, "there is not the slightest need for surprise; the secret archives, to which I alone have access, tell me that a similar occurrence happened on the last two millennial commencements. You will, of course, say nothing of these trifles outside the Cabinet."
