Myson

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Myson, a Chenean by birth, of some Oetaean or Laconian village, is reckoned one of the seven wise men.

The Oracle of Delphi gave the answer to Anacharsis

I say that Myson the Oetaean sage,
The citizen of Chen, is wiser far
In his deep mind than you.

Quotes[edit]

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.