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Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

Approximate author period: c. 1963 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1963 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1918 to 2008; Wikidata Q34474, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34474 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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