De Officiis (On Duties) was Cicero's last philosophical work. In it he made use of …
We must realise, it is that which is done with a great and lofty spirit, one disdaining human affairs, which appears in the most brilliant light.
— On Duties by Cicero, M. T. Griffin, E. M. Atkins (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (Page 25)