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More Latin Quotations

Esse quam videri - to be rather than to seem – The state motto of North Carolina - 1893. From chapter 98 of Cicero's essay "De amicitia" - On Friendship. the whole phrase follows: Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt. - Fewer possess virtue, than those who would wish us to think they have it.

Credo quia absurdum - I believe because it is absurd to do so - Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus

Fide, sed cui vide - You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit. - Aristotle

Vos, O clarissima mundi Lumina, labentem coelo quae ducitis annum - O you brightest lights of the universe that lead the passing year through the skies- Virgil

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