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Simonides ( c.556 - 468 BC) was a poet of ancient Greece. He was perhaps the first poet to write victory odes, a genre in which Pinder later became most famous. Little of his works are extant except in fragments. His general renown owes much to traditional accounts of his colourful life, as one of the wisest of men; as a greedy miser; as an inventor of a system of mnemonics; and the inventor of some letters of the Greek alphabet (ω, η, ξ, ψ). As a poet, he had a remarkable abilityto present basic human situations with affecting simplicity. He had an influence on the sophistic enlightenment of the Classical era. Only few of his poetry remain, either in the form of papyrus fragments or quotations by ancient literary figures. Here are selected wisdom and quotes from him.