For we are all attracted and drawn to a zeal for learning and knowing; and we think it glorious to excel therein, while we count it base and immoral to fall into error, to wander from the truth, to be ignorant, to be led astray.
Cicero argues that the pursuit of knowledge and truth is a fundamental human inclination, contrasting it with the perceived baseness of error and ignorance.
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