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A prince does not spend much on colonies , for with little or no expense he can send them out and keep them there , and he offends a minority only of the citizens from whom he takes lands and houses to give them to the new inhabitants ; and those whom he offends , remaining poor and scattered , are never able to injure him ; whilst the rest being uninjured are easily kept quiet , and at the same time are anxious not to err for fear it should happen to them as it has to those who have been despoiled . When these things are remembered no one will marvel at the ease with which Alexander held the Empire of Asia , or at the difficulties which others have had to keep an acquisition , such as Pyrrhus and many more ; this is not occasioned by the little or abundance of ability in the conqueror , but by the want of uniformity in the subject state . And do not let any one impugn this statement with the trite proverb that ' He who builds on the people , builds on the mud , ' for this is true when a private citizen makes a foundation there , and persuades himself that the people will free him when he is oppressed by his enemies or by the magistrates ; wherein he would find himself very often deceived , as happened to the Gracchi in Rome and to Messer Giorgio Scali in Florence . Because from such arms conquests come but slowly , long delayed and inconsiderable , but the losses sudden and portentous . It was necessary , therefore , to Moses that he should find the people of Israel in Egypt enslaved and oppressed by the Egyptians , in order that they should be disposed to follow him so as to be delivered out of bondage . Overpowering and annihilating that brute force which signified valour of superhuman nature fired the imagination of artists and sculptors of Karnataka The motif remained a constant source of inspiration for their creativity .