Non nobis solum

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Non nobis solum (Latin: "Not for ourselves alone") is a Latin motto. Its meaning indicates an ideal of unselfishness, and of a betterment of the self in order to help others.

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• The town of Burnie, in Tasmania, Australia. It had appeared on the council seal of the town until 1992, when the seal was updated to a new, more colourful one without the motto present.

• Beckenham Borough Council

• University College, Durham, hinting that the university was created as the first in Northern England, in order to improve conditions in the region as a whole

• Lower Canada College, a private school in Quebec

• The Massanutten Military Academy in Virginia.

• Stan Hywet Hall, inscribed above the main doors.

See also: Non nobis