"You can never be too rich or too thin", Wallis Simpson is said to have quipped. In this series, writers consider if there are there qualities you can have in too much abundance
Andrew Brown: Can you be too … : Corporate smoke-screens, some Catholic bioethics … such problematic displays of 'ethicity' can easily confuse the issue
Philippa Perry: Can you be too … : Jane Austen understood that the search for meaning in one's life may be more satisfying than the pursuit of happiness
Giles Fraser: Can you be too … : When considering this question, note that Jesus himself was hostile to religiosity – and that fundamentalists suffer from a lack of faith
AL Kennedy:Can you be too … : How pleasant to sit at peace with the people you love and to have some food around and maybe songs to sing. But at Christmas? Fat chance
