Jor-El
You...enjoyed it.
Superman
I don't know what to say. I guess I just got carried away.
Jor-El
I anticipated this, my son. I...
Superman
You couldn't have! You couldn’t have imagined...
Jor-El
How good it felt!
Superman
How good it felt...
Jor-El
You are revealed to the world. Very well. So be it. But still you must keep your secret identity.
Superman
Why?
Jor-El
The reasons are two: First, you cannot serve humanity 28 hours a day.
Superman
24.
Jor-El
Or 24, as it is in Earth time. Your help would be called for endlessly, even for those tasks which human beings could solve themselves, because they're happy to abuse their resources in such a way.
Superman
And secondly?
Jor-El
Second: Your enemies will discover their only way to hurt you by hurting the people you care for.
Superman
Thank you, Father...
Jor-El
Lastly, do not punish yourself for your feelings of vanity. Simply learn to control them. It is an affliction common to all, even on Krypton... [expression changes] Our destruction could have been avoided but for the vanity of some who considered us indestructible. Were it not for vanity, why, at this very moment...I could embrace you in my arms [barely audible] ...my son...
