There are only three things which increase when shared: love, wisdom and happiness.

Meaning: Affection or personal attachment can make someone see what is theirs as especially admirable. The saying points to partial judgement without making a loved person or cherished work objectively inferior.

Meaning: Do not add burdens to someone already overwhelmed. Pouring more water onto a drowned mouse gives a stark image of effort that cannot help and may only worsen an already hopeless situation.

Meaning: Removing G from glass gives lass, and removing L from lass gives ass. The wordplay mocks a person who becomes foolish through romantic attachment, but the verbal trick does not prove its judgment about love.

Meaning: Contentment can make what someone already has feel sufficient. The transforming-stone comparison values satisfaction, without claiming that an attitude removes deprivation or that people should stop seeking necessary improvements.