The pliant tree bends before the wind and is not damaged by the storm, but the rigid tree is often snapped. In the same way it is sometimes better to give way to the wishes of those in authority than to stand up to them and be ruined. This is cowardly advice, unless it is assumed that by such action one lives to fight another day.
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