【Advice】 , 【counsel】 and their corresponding verbs advise, 【counsel】 denote recommendation or to make a recommendation as to a decision or a course of conduct.
【Advice】 and advise imply real or pretended knowledge or experience, often professional or technical, on the part of the one who advises and may apply to any of the affairs of life.
【advice】 regarding the choice of books
the extension specialist assists and advises the farmers
legal 【advice】
【Counsel】 often stresses the fruit of wisdom or deliberation, and presupposes weightier occasions than 【advice】 or more authority or a closer personal relationship in the one who counsels.
I do in friendship 【counsel】 you to leave this place —Shak.
seek 【counsel】 in affairs of state
The noun sometimes suggests instruction or 【advice】 of a lofty or ideal character.
