be what you would seem to be
- be what you would seem to be
Cf. AESCHYLUS Seven against Thebes 1. 592 οὐ γὰρ δοκεῖν ἄριστος ἀλλ᾽ εἶναι θέλει, for he wishes not to appear but to be the best; SALLUST Catilina liv. Esse, quam videri, bonus malebat, he [sc. Cato] preferred to be good, rather than to seem good.
c 1377 LANGLAND Piers Plowman B. X. 253 Suche as thow semest in syghte, be in assay [trial] y-founde.
1640 G. HERBERT Outlandish Proverbs no. 724 Be what thou wouldst seeme to be.
1721 J. KELLY Scottish Proverbs 68 Be what you seem, and seem what you are. The best way! for Hypocrisy is soon discovered.
1865 ‘L. CARROLL’ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ix. It’s a vegetable. It doesn’t look like one, but it is... the moral of that is—‘Be what you would seem to be.’
1980 G. SIMS in H. Watson Winter Crimes 12 158 The Benningworth family motto Esse quam videri, ‘To be rather than to seem to be’.
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