Socrates the Troll

[sdi]

"Socrates, you are just like those troll-shaped cabinets they sell in shops which, when opened, have pretty little pictures of the gods inside. For, Socrates, please don't be offended when I say that you look like a troll, act like a troll, and even bewitch people like a troll; but if one but looks within you, ah! what they see!—such beauty you hide within your coarse exterior!"

(Alcibiades; as quoted by Plato, Symposium; and as paraphrased by yours truly)