Ashville College (1877) Harrogate, England.Ashford School (1899) Ashford, Kent, England.Appalachian State University (1899) Boone, North Carolina, USA.Anselm's Preparatory School Bakewell, England Academy of the Holy Names Tampa, Florida.Academy at the Lakes, Land O Lakes, Florida.SchoolsĮsse quam videri is (or was) the motto of a number of schools around the world including: The state motto had also been adopted as a temporary motto by the Virginia class submarine USS North Carolina until being replaced by primus in proelio, which means First in Fight, a play-on-words for First in Flight. It was one of the few states that did not have a motto, and the only one of the original thirteen without one. It is unusual that, until the act of 1893, the state of North Carolina had no motto since its declaration of independence. 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. In The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli reverses this phrase to Videri Quam Esse (To seem rather than to be) with respect to how a ruler ought to act. ![]() 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 Amphiaraos: " ou gar dokein aristos, all' einai thelei" (his resolve is not to seem the best but in fact to be the best). 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). ![]() Esse quam videri is found in Cicero's essay "On Friendship" (" De amicitia", chapter 98).
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