Do not be afraid to look at your faults because even if you don't look at your faults it will be found out one day and it's good to tell your faults, being truthful is good. Lying brings you nothing and being truthful makes you make your worried thoughts away. S it's always better to look at you faults.
He describes the society of Cyclops as brutes since they do not abide the laws. Odysseus himself describes it as a “horrid creature not like a human at all.”