Full Idea
You gods say that the fault lies in the vices of mankind. But you could have endowed men with reason in a form which would exclude all vice and crime.
Gist of Idea
The gods blame men for having vices, but they could have given us enough reason to avoid them
Source
M. Tullius Cicero (On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') [c.44 BCE], III.76)
Book Reference
Cicero: 'The Nature of the Gods', ed/tr. McGregor,Horace [Penguin 1972], p.226