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Augusta Preparatory Day School (1972), Augusta, Georgia, USA.

Appalachian State University (1899), Boone, North Carolina.St Audries School, East Quantoxhead, Somerset, England.Academy at the Lakes, Land O Lakes, Florida.Academy of the Holy Names, Albany, New York.Academy of the Holy Names, Tampa, Florida.Academia de Guerra del Ejército de Chile, Santiago, Chile.Schools and colleges Įsse quam videri is (or was) the motto of a number of schools and colleges around the world, including: Great Seal of North Carolina with the state motto esse quam videri.Įsse quam videri is the state motto of North Carolina, adopted in 1893. Plato quoted this line in Republic (361b). Previous to both Romans, Aeschylus used a similar phrase in Seven Against Thebes at line 592, at which the scout ( angelos) says of the seer/priest Amphiaraus: οὐ γὰρ δοκεῖν ἄριστος, ἀλλ᾽ εἶναι θέλει ( ou gàr dokeîn áristos, all' eînai thélei: "he doesn't want to seem, but to be the bravest"). Just a few years after Cicero, Sallust used the phrase in his Bellum Catilinae (54.6), writing that Cato the Younger esse quam videri bonus malebat ("He preferred to be good rather than to seem so"). Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt ("Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so"). History Įsse quam videri is found in Cicero's essay On Friendship ( Laelius de Amicitia, chapter 98). The form Esse, non Videri ("to act, not to seem to be") is the Wallenberg family motto. "Esse Quam Videri" plaque on monument to Revolutionary War officer Joseph Winston, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro, North CarolinaĮsse quam videri is a Latin phrase meaning "To be, rather than to seem." It and variants have been used as a motto by a number of different groups.