Wine makes not drunkenness; but intemperance produces it. Thirdly, a charge of habitual intemperance. Unlike early temperance reformers, the Washingtonians did not believe that intemperance destroyed a drinker's morality. Realizing his folly, the merchant regrets his intemperance and seeks forgiveness. They despised the German people for their rudeness and intemperance in eating and drinking. But he rarely failed to introduce some reference to the evils of intemperance. Jackson believed his diet could cure intemperance and masturbation. Muskie was upset by its "overzealous surveillance and its director's intemperance". In spite of continued incidents of intemperance, he was selected by Brig. Allegory of Intemperance is a Hieronymus Bosch painting made sometime between 1490 and 1500. In 1826 he delivered and published six sermons on intemperance. The Praise of Wine, and the ill effects of intemperance. By 425 BC, warnings against intemperance, especially at symposia, appear to become more frequent. Behind him is the grape, perhaps a symbol of the drunk's intemperance. The Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance (MSSI) was formed in 1813.