Peace College (1857), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.National University of Health Sciences (previously National Chiropractic College), Lombard, Illinois.

Mountlake Terrace High School, Mountlake Terrace, Washington.Moravian Academy, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania current motto is 'mind, body, spirit',.Montreat College, Montreat, North Carolina.

Montego Bay High School for Girls, Jamaica.Miami Coral Park Senior High School, Miami, Florida, USA.Magee Secondary School, Vancouver, British Columbia.Lane College, Jackson, Tennessee, USA.Kingsley School, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England.The King's College, New York (House of Susan B.John Caldwell School, Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada.JMA Armstrong High School, Salisbury, New Brunswick, Canada.Instituto Metodista Bennett (1888), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Hudson Catholic High School, Hudson, Massachusetts.Homewood School, Tenterden, Kent, England.Highsted Grammar School, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.The Hermitage School (1906), Geelong, Australia which has subsequently become that of The Hermitage House, Geelong Grammar School.The Hemel Hempstead School (1931), Hemel Hempstead, England.Hartford Public High School, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.The motto changed to Cui Servire est Regnare ('To whom to serve is to reign') shortly after the school's founding. Groton School (1884), Groton, Massachusetts, USA.Garrison Forest School, Owings Mills, Maryland, USA.The Forest School, Winnersh, Wokingham, Berkshire, England.Esquimalt High School, Esquimalt, British Columbia.The Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA.The Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.Ellis Robins High School, Harare, Zimbabwe.Dubbo High School (now Dubbo College).Desert Heights Preparatory Academy, Glendale, Arizona.Darwin High School, Darwin, Australia.

Cranbrook School, Sydney (1918), Sydney, Australia.

Connells Point Public School, Sydney, Australia.

Columbia College Chicago (1890), Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Colyton Grammar School (1546), Colyford, England.

Clifton House Preparatory School, Harrogate, England.

Brigham Young University Men's Chorus, Provo, Utah, USA.

Boys' Latin School of Maryland (1844), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Bordentown Military Institute, (1881-1973), Bordentown, NJ, USA.

Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Valencia, Spain.

Bedford College, University of London until c.1990, when Bedford and Royal Holloway Colleges merged and it became the motto of the joint college.

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

Ashville College (1877), Harrogate, England.

Ashford School (1899), Ashford, Kent, England.

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'). Esse quam videri is found in Cicero's essay On Friendship ( Laelius de Amicitia, chapter 98).

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