name: Daniel
Kahlil Gibran Knew
03 July, 2007
From A Second Treasury of Kahlil Gibran (Citadel Press 1962); Book 2: The Voice of the Master, pp.67-68:
My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your shield against tyranny. For when we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither hear nor understand. But the man who hears and understands we call mad, and flee from him.
Do not seek counsel from a tyrant, or a wrongdoer, or a presumptuous man, or a deserter from honor. Woe to him who conspires with the wrongdoer who comes seeking advice. For to agree with the wrongdoer is infamy, and to hearken to that which is false is treachery.
Unless I be endowed with wide knowledge, keen judgment and great experience, I cannot account myself a counsellor of men.
The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither hear nor understand. But the man who hears and understands we call mad, and flee from him.
Do not seek counsel from a tyrant, or a wrongdoer, or a presumptuous man, or a deserter from honor. Woe to him who conspires with the wrongdoer who comes seeking advice. For to agree with the wrongdoer is infamy, and to hearken to that which is false is treachery.
Unless I be endowed with wide knowledge, keen judgment and great experience, I cannot account myself a counsellor of men.
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