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Socrates the Troll

"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)

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