“Because it is difficult for a man to be instructed by himself, therefore there is required a counsel by which one is regulated according to the dictate of divinely inspired men. Be constant with a holy man, whomever you know to observe the fear of God: whose soul is according to your soul. He gives the reason: because…”
Bonaventure, 13th c. — Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 7
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15And above all this pray to the most High, that he will direct thy way in truth.
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13And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it.
14For a man’s mind is sometime wont to tell him more than seven watchmen, that sit above in an high tower.
— Sirach 37:15 —
16Let reason go before every enterprize, and counsel before every action.
17The countenance is a sign of changing of the heart.