“In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.”
“In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.”
“Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]”
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