“Experience is the Prophecy of the Wise”

Here’s a bit of modern sigil update to Alphonse de Lamartine’s famous quote, “Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.” If the language seems a little out of date, that’s probably because he wrote that in the mid-1800s. Perhaps we can forgive the language, given that he helped to end both the death penalty and slavery in France during the short-lived Second Republic.