Which character says goodbye to children and sisters prior to leaving in exile?

Which character  argues that stubborn wills fall the hardest and the toughest iron will crack and shatter first, when describing someone?  

Which character requests to be driven from Thebes in exile?

Which character refers to someone else as a woman’s slave?

Which character tells someone that he or she is doomed, while hoping the person never realizes the truth of his or her parentage?

Which character warns someone that great hatred rises against him or her with cities in tumult and  whose mutilated sons the dogs have graced with burial?  

Which character does not believe in prophets/seers?

Which character begs someone to call off the search and allow his or her pain to be enough?

Which character contends that the patriot and the traitor should not receive the same burial rites?

Which character explains that he or she could have gotten another spouse or child, if the first had been lost in the halls of death?