Maintain your personal dignity. Keep people at a distance. Maintain independence of behavior. Treat everyone with respect. Be tolerant of other people's beliefs and weaknesses. Do not humiliate yourself, do not grovel, do not grovel, whatever the cost. Do not look down on anyone, even if the person is worthless and deserves contempt. Give everyone their due. Call genius genius. Call a hero a hero. Do not exalt insignificance. Do not be close with careerists, schemers, informers, slanderers, cowards and other bad people. Leave the society of bad people. Discuss, but don't argue. Talk, but don't rant. Explain, but don't agitate. If you don't ask, don't answer. Do not answer more than what they ask. Don't draw attention to yourself. If you can do without someone else's help, do it. Do not impose your help. Don't get too intimate with people. Do not go into the soul of others, but do not let anyone into yours either. Promise if you're sure you'll keep your promise. When you promise, keep your promise at all costs. Don't cheat. Not tricky. Don't intrigue. Don't teach. Don't gloat. In the fight, give the enemy all the advantages.
Don't rape others. Violence against others is not a sign of will. Only violence against oneself is will. But don't let others rape you. Resist the overwhelming force by any means you can.
Blame yourself. If you have hard-hearted children, you raised them like that. If a friend betrayed you, it is your fault that you trusted him. If your wife cheated on you, you are to blame for giving her the opportunity to cheat. If you are oppressed by the power, you are to blame for having contributed your share to its power.
Do not act on behalf of others. Think about the consequences of your actions for others - you are responsible for them (for the consequences). Good intentions do not justify the bad consequences of your actions; good consequences do not justify bad intentions.
The body is eaten by invisible bacteria. The soul is eaten by petty worries and worries. Don't let the little things in life take over your soul.
Never expect that people will evaluate your actions objectively, there is no such "objective" evaluation at all. What we consider to be an objective assessment is how we ourselves would like people to evaluate our actions. The motives for your actions do not coincide with what motives others will attribute to them. Your motives themselves change over time, and are often multifaceted and contradictory. You yourself involuntarily look for suitable justifications for your actions and even justifications for them. People look at your behavior from the point of view of their interests and in the system of their world outlook. People are different. One and the same deed is evil for some and good for others. Moreover, when evaluating the actions of people, even the truth of facts is attainable only sometimes and only partially. You live, not understood by others, and you will die not understood. This is a general law. Only the onethose who do not pretend to some objective understanding of their behavior by others, live worthy of a human being. Death and oblivion correct all "injustices" in this regard. Add to everything else deliberate lies and slander, as well as the desire of people to idealize selected personalities. Remember: you are the only and highest "objective" judge of your behavior, because it is your behavior, and you are free to judge it at your discretion.
A. A. Zinoviev, "Go to Calvary"