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North Carolina's motto, Esse Quam Videri, signifying To be rather than to seem, may be found in Cicero's De Amicitia, Section 26, line 16. The sense in which Cicero used this expression in the De Amicitia is different from that in which the motto is used today. Cicero says, enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt... meaning thereby, indeed not so many wish to be endowed with virtue as wish to seem to be...
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