Single Idea 2658

[catalogued under 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / b. Human Evil]

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