水みずは低ひくきに流ながる

expression

water seeks its own level

Proverb meaning that things naturally settle where they belong, or that people gravitate to their own kind. The classical ending 流る is equivalent to modern 流れる.

• 水みずは低ひくきに流ながるというように、彼かれも自し然ぜんと自じ分ぶんに合あった仕し事ごとに落おち着ついた。

  Just as water seeks its own level, he naturally settled into a job that suited him.