An idea from The Symposium

Your hair, blood, bones, moods and knowledge are always being lost and replaced. Ambition runs on the same hunger: people risk more for lasting fame than for their children. Lawgivers like Solon got temples for the laws they left, and nobody ever got one for ordinary children.

From The Symposium by Plato

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