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"Esse Quam Videri"
Our State's motto was adopted by the General Assembly in 1893. The Latin words "Esse Quam Videri" mean "to be rather than to seem." The origin of these words is found in Cicero's essay on Friendship (Cicero de Amicitia, Chapter 26).