Myson

Myson is reckoned one of the seven wise men. Quotes Men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for things are not made on account of words, but words are put together for the sake of things. Anacharsis, having taken a great deal of trouble, came to the village, and found him in the summer season fitting a handle to a plough, and he addressed him, “O Myson, this is not now the season for the plough.” Indeed, said he, it is a capital season for preparing one; He was one day found in Lacedaemon laughing by himself in a solitary place, and when someone came up to him on a sudden and asked him why he laughed when he was by himself, he said: For that very reason. As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Category:Greece