Esse quam videri - wikipedia Esse quam videri This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( January 2016 ) Esse quam videri is a Latin phrase meaning `` To be, rather than to seem ''. It has been used as a motto by a number of different groups. `` Esse Quam Videri '' plaque on monument to Revolutionary War officer Joseph Winston, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro, North Carolina Contents 1 History 2 Usage as a motto 2.1 North Carolina 2.2 Schools and colleges 2.3 Sororities 2.4 Fraternities 2.5 Sporting organisations 2.6 Companies 2.7 Other organizations 2.8 Popular culture 3 References History Esse quam videri is found in Cicero 's essay On Friendship ( Laelius de Amicitia, chapter 98 ). 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 '' ). 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 '' ). 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 does n't want to seem, but to be the bravest '' ). Plato quoted this line in Republic ( 361b ). Niccolò Machiavelli reversed the phrase to videri quam esse ( to seem rather than to be ). Usage as a motto This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2009 ) North Carolina Great Seal of North Carolina with the state motto esse quam videri. Esse quam videri is the state motto of North Carolina, adopted in 1893. Schools and colleges Esse quam videri is ( or was ) the motto of a number of schools and colleges around the world, including : Academy at the Lakes, Land O Lakes, Florida Academy of the Holy Names, Tampa, Florida Accra Academy, Accra, Ghana Albert Academy, Freetown, Sierra Leone Amarillo High School, Amarillo, Texas S. Anselm 's Preparatory School, Bakewell, England Appalachian State University ( 1899 ), Boone, North Carolina Ashford School ( 1899 ), Ashford, Kent, England Ashville College ( 1877 ), Harrogate, England Augusta Preparatory Day School ( 1972 ), Augusta, Georgia, USA Bedford College, University of London until c. 1990, when Bedford and Royal Holloway Colleges merged and it became the motto of the joint college Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Valencia, Spain Bordentown Military Institute, ( 1881 - 1973 ), Bordentown, NJ, USA Boys ' Latin School of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Brigham Young University Men 's Chorus, Provo, Utah, USA Clifton House Preparatory School, Harrogate, England Colyton Grammar School ( 1546 ), Colyford, England Columbia College Chicago ( 1890 ), Chicago, Illinois, USA Connells Point Public School, Sydney, Australia Cranbrook School Sydney ( 1918 ), Sydney, Australia Desert Heights Preparatory Academy, Glendale, Arizona Darwin High School, Darwin, Australia Ellis Robins High School, Harare, Zimbabwe The Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Esquimalt High School, Esquimalt, British Columbia The Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA The Forest School, Winnersh, Wokingham, Berkshire, England Groton School ( 1884 ), Groton, Massachusetts, USA. The motto changed to Cui Servire est Regnare ( `` To whom to serve is to reign '' ) shortly after the school 's founding. The Hermitage School ( 1906 ), Geelong, Australia ; which has subsequently become that of The Hermitage House, Geelong Grammar School. Hartford Public High School, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Highsted Grammar School, Sittingbourne, Kent, England Homewood School, Tenterden, Kent, England Hudson Catholic High School, Hudson, Massachusetts The Hemel Hempstead School ( 1931 ), Hemel Hempstead, England. Instituto Metodista Bennett ( 1888 ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil JMA Armstrong High School, Salisbury, New Brunswick, Canada John Caldwell School, Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada The King 's College, New York ( House of Susan B. Anthony ) Kingsley School, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England Kutama College, Norton, Zimbabwe Lane College, Jackson, Tennessee, USA Magee Secondary School, Vancouver, British Columbia Miami Coral Park Senior High School, Miami, Florida, USA Montreat College, Montreat, North Carolina Moravian Academy, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania ; current motto is `` mind, body, spirit '', Mountlake Terrace High School, Mountlake Terrace, Washington National University of Health Sciences ( previously National Chiropractic College ), Lombard, Illinois Peace College ( 1857 ), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA Queen 's College, Queenstown, South Africa Regent 's University London, England Rhodesway School ( 1958 ), Bradford, UK Rockridge Secondary School, West Vancouver, British Columbia Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, England St. Joseph 's College in Patchogue, New York, United States. St. Malachy 's Memorial High School, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. St Thomas à Becket Catholic College, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Salisbury School, Salisbury, Connecticut, USA Selaiyur Hall, Madras Christian College, Chennai, India Seton Hall High School, Patchogue, New York, United States Southampton Grammar School for Girls Southampton, UK Streetsville Secondary School, Streetsville, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Suffield Academy, Suffield, Connecticut, USA The Taieri High School, Mosgiel, Otago, New Zealand Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy ( 1999 -- present ), Rutherford County, North Carolina Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, Tennessee Truro School ( 1880 -- present ), Truro, Cornwall, England Boys ' Latin School of Maryland ( 1844 ), Baltimore, Maryland, USA University of North Carolina at Charlotte ( 1946 ), Charlotte, North Carolina, USA University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida Villa Devoto School ( 1908 ), Buenos Aires, Argentina Wavell State High School, Brisbane, Australia St Audries School, West Quantoxhead, Taunton, Somerset, England ( since closed and now a hotel ) Woodward Career Technical High School ( formerly Woodward High School ), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA ( Alma mater of William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United States ) Wyomissing Area Junior / Senior High School, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania Yeovil School, Yeovil, Somerset, England Sororities Esse quam videri is the motto of the following sororities : Delta Phi Epsilon sorority, founded in 1917 at New York University Law School. House of Susan B. Anthony, founded exclusively at The King 's College NYC. Phi Delta Alpha, founded in 2002 at University of Oklahoma Alpha Chi Lambda, founded in 1998 at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. Fraternities Esse quam videri is the motto of the following fraternities : Phi Gamma Nu, National Professional Fraternity in Business, est. Northwestern University 1924. Lambda Kappa Sigma, founded in 1913 at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. Sporting organisations Kingswood Rugby Football Club, Bristol, UK, use a variant of the motto, `` Esse Non Videri '' as their club motto. White Wolves MC, Oradea, RO, use a variant of the motto, `` Esse Quam Videri Malim '' as their club motto. Outcast Cyclists, U.K. And worldwide use `` Esse Quam Videri '' as their club motto. Companies Brepols Publishers, as found on their older books : `` Melius esse quam videri '' Swire Group esp. its shipping branch, The China Navigation Company. The phrase is found on the Sibley Mill along the Augusta Canal in Augusta, Georgia. The structure was completed in 1882 and operated until 2006. Other organizations Esse quam videri is also the motto of the honor society The Order of Scroll and Key at Dickinson College. The Archon Society at Kenyon College. The National Honor & Merit Scholars Society. the Carolina Wilderness EMS Externship, a wilderness EMS training program based in western North Carolina. the Brigham Young University Men 's Chorus. No. 77 Squadron RAF ( active during three periods between 1916 and 1963 ) used the variant, Esse potius quam videri with the same meaning. The U.S. Consortium of Metropolitan Medical Directors ( Eagles ). The Pan Hellenic Society of Silliman University, Philippines. Popular culture Television personality Stephen Colbert inverted the statement on his show The Colbert Report to Videri Quam Esse, meaning `` to seem to be rather than to be. 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