Plato states in his Laws, "We ourselves are poets who have to the best of our ability created a tragedy that is the finest and the best; at any rate, our entire constitution is constructed as an imitation of the finest and best way of life---the very thing which we claim is the truest tragedy". He says it. Some love stories---the good ones---are tragedies: they involve the kind of love found in the best kind of life, a life that comes as possible to the divine---one in which we achieve happiness by having good things be ours forever.