Well-advised definition

Adam, received a sound classical education, and was well advised by his friend Dr Thomas Brown, the eminent metaphysician.

Yet large as the terms were, the emperor would probably have been well advised to grant them; but Honorius was one of those timid and feeble folk who are equally unable to make war or peace, and refused to look beyond the question of his own personal safety, guaranteed as it was by the dikes and marshes of Ravenna.

Businesses would certainly be well advised to obtain opt-in consent from their customers to protect against the proposed changes in the law.