"Because it's wrong to break laws."
"And do you never do anything wrong?"
"Never. My tutors taught me that people who do wrong are always punished for it. I shouldn't like to be punished at all."
"Still, you must have wanted to do bad things now and then."
"Now and then I have," he confessed. "Especially lately. But I never do them. You see, bad people are never really liked."
"Do you know, Count, what the great German philosopher Nietzsche would call such goodness as yours? He would say it was 'slave-morality.' You only do what other people tell you is right because you're afraid of what they would think of you if you didn't. You have courage enough to master Tützi, but you daren't defy what Nietzsche so finely terms 'the Great Dragon of the Law,' which says: 'Thou shalt'—'Thou shalt not.'"
"What?" he said in surprise. "Is there another dragon besides Tützi? And one that can talk, too! I never heard of him!"
"Nietzsche was speaking metaphorically, of course," said Edna impatiently. "He meant the human laws and customs and prejudices which a true Superman should soar above. I think you ought to be more of a Superman."
"Ought I?" he said, open-mouthed. "What sort of things does a—one of those gentlemen—do?"
"Well," said Edna, after refreshing her memory by her notes, "you should begin by 'hating and despising the ideals of the average man'! You should create your own Truth—your own Morality. Obey only your primordial instincts—the Will to Power."