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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.
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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 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 doesn't want to seem, but to be the bravest"). Plato quoted this line in Republic (361b).
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Esse quam videri is the state motto of North Carolina, adopted in 1893. [1] [2]
Esse quam videri is (or was) the motto of a number of schools and colleges around the world, including:
Esse quam videri is the motto of the following sororities:
Esse quam videri is the motto of the following fraternities:
The Wallenberg family. [30]
Esse quam videri is also the motto of
Television personality Stephen Colbert inverted the statement on his show The Colbert Report to Videri Quam Esse, [42] meaning "to seem to be rather than to be." It is also engraved across the faux hearth, above the video fireplace, in his studio, under his portrait. He has cited it as his personal motto. [43]
Delta Gamma (ΔΓ), commonly known as DG, is a women's fraternity in the United States and Canada with over 250,000 initiated members. It has 150 collegiate chapters and more than 200 alumnae groups. The organization's executive office is in Columbus, Ohio. Delta Gamma is one of 26 national sororities under the umbrella organization of the National Panhellenic Conference.
Phi Mu (ΦΜ) is the second oldest female fraternal organization established in the United States.
Ad astra is a Latin phrase meaning "to the stars". The phrase has origins with Virgil, who wrote in his Aeneid: "sic itur ad astra" and "opta ardua pennis astra sequi". Another origin is Seneca the Younger, who wrote in Hercules: "non est ad astra mollis e terris via".
Dum spiro spero, which translates to "While I breathe, I hope", is a Latin phrase of indeterminate origin. It is the motto of various places and organisations, including the U.S. state of South Carolina.
Phi Lambda Chi (ΦΛΧ), commonly known as Phi Lamb, is a social collegiate fraternity founded at the Arkansas State Teachers College in 1925. It was formerly a member of the North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC).
S. Anselm's Preparatory School is a private school located in Bakewell, Derbyshire, in the heart of the Peak District. Founded in 1888. Winner of the Tatler Schools Guide title: Prep School of the Year 2021, it offers flexi, weekly and full boarding for pupils aged 3–13.
Hudson Catholic High School (HCHS) was a coeducational Catholic high school in Hudson, Massachusetts, United States. It was within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. The school was founded in 1959. On March 29, 2009, parents and students were told that the high school would close in June, after graduating its fiftieth class. On June 4, 2009, the school officially closed. The former Hudson Catholic High School building was demolished in 2015.
Kutama College is a private Catholic independent boarding high school near Norton, Zimbabwe in the Zvimba area, 80 kilometres southwest of Harare. Grown out of a Mission station founded in 1914 and run by the Marist Brothers, Kutama has a student population of about 700 pupils.
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Ellis Robins School is a Zimbabwean boys' high school that was founded in Salisbury, Rhodesia in 1953. It is located in the suburb of Mabelreign in Salisbury. Next door is Mabelreign Girls High School, the school's sister school. The Ellis Robins school colours are blue and gold, the badge has two dolphins facing each other, and the school Latin motto is "Esse Quam Videri" which means "To be, rather than to seem".
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High school fraternities and sororities, also called secondary fraternities and sororities, were inspired by and modeled after Greek-letter organizations which became prevalent in North American colleges and universities during the nineteenth century. In some respects, these fraternities and sororities are designed to better prepare individuals for college-level fraternities.
Alpha Delta Theta (ΑΔΘ) was a national collegiate sorority operating in the United States from 1919 to 1939. The sorority officially affiliated with Phi Mu fraternity on August 30, 1939.
Chi Alpha Delta (ΧΑΔ) is the oldest Asian-American cultural interest sorority in the United States. It was founded and chartered at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1928.
The Academy of the Holy Names, or AHN, was a Catholic girls college-preparatory high school located in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Seton Hall High School was located on 155 West Roe Boulevard in Patchogue, New York. Prior to 1952, the school was situated in bungalows on South Ocean Avenue. It opened in September 1937 and was closed in June 1974. Seton Hall was one of very few co-educational Catholic High Schools on Long Island, New York. The team mascot was the Eagle. The school motto was "Esse quam videri" meaning "To be, rather than to seem " and it appeared on the class rings of the school.
Chania High School was a public high school located in Thika, in the Central Province of Kenya.
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