Yes, exactly, and it is such a good rule to go by so much of the time. But like many rules, you need judgment to know when to apply it.
This should be the guiding principle of life!
This was my guiding principle in life, and I thought I was pretty clever for coming up with it, but later found out that someone far more clever got a lock on the phrase in history: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/22688-everything-in-moderat...