Counsel is no command.
This proverb suggests that just because someone gives advice, it does not mean that they have the authority to dictate one’s actions. It implies that people should use their own judgment and make their own decisions, rather than blindly following the advice of others.
The same wording may be used in both command and counsel. Like "Do this," or "Do not this,"
Command is where a man says without expecting other reason than the will of him that says it. From this it follows manifestly that he that commands pretends thereby his own benefit: for the reason of his command is his own will only, and the proper object of every man's will is some good to himself.
Counsel is where a man says, deduces his reasons from the benefit that arrives by it to him to whom he says it. And from this it is evident that he that gives counsel pretends only (whatsoever he intends) the good of him to whom he gives it.
Therefore between counsel and command, one great difference is that command is directed to a man's own benefit, and counsel to the benefit of another man.
