Baccalaureus

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Once a man's thirty, he's already old,
He is indeed as good as dead.
It's best to kill him right away.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

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More information about this quote

Topic

Stages of life

Speaker

Baccalaureus

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

Faust

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Tragedy

Language

German

Time

1808 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil [Faust. The Tragedy's Second Part]. 1832, act 2.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust: Part Two, translated by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 2.