From the reading, philsophy and poetry, Epictetus, Nietzsche and doctor Phil.

*Virtue bifurcated, but not predicated upon "ne'er the twain", not at all.  Indeed, there is overlap.

1.  What is pleasant.(Percy Bysse Shelly)

2.  What is useful.(John Locke)

*The Triumph of the Will: the sort of goat worship in a movie starring Sherri Moon Zombie.  Friedrich Nietzsche co-opted by the Satanists, a kind of weird thing, I wot.

*Winning the argument is often a dumb idea; as per Dr Phil.  The greater victory, the long game, is to sometimes sit in the corner--the philosophical strategy of the snowball fight, to not waste snowballs on only one target--or the eggs in the basket(today being Easter Sunday, and all).

*If you want the same results as someone else, you have to pay the same cost, logic dictates.  As the old band The Chairmen of the Board sang in the Top 40 some years back, you gotta pay to the piper if you want to dance to the music.  Epictetus wonders if it is ever worthwhile, in most instances, to replicate the unusual success of another; there is a time cost, an emotional cost, and so on--but it is his logic, in my notes, that observe the truism that repeating the process leads to repeated results.

Otherwise, the proverbial lunatic is the one that does the same thing time and again whilst expecting different results in each instance.