Increase-Decrease

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. (Pearl S Buck)

Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortals live dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. (Lucretius)

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fire. (La Rochefoucauld)

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. (Bible)